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Chap 2 Travel
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Active Sports Tourism | involves traveling to participate in physical sporting activities, often combining adventure, fitness, and cultural experiences |
| Allocentric Travelers | adventurous, independent tourists who seek novel, culturally immersive, and less-developed destinations. |
| Business Tourism | ravel undertaken for work-related purposes—such as meetings, conferences, trade shows, and incentive trips—and represents a major global sector |
| Corporate Hospitality Event | an entertainment or social event organized by a company to engage clients, stakeholders, or employees, aiming to strengthen relationships, reward loyalty, and create positive business impressions. |
| Demographics | statistical data relating to the population and particular groups within it |
| Destination | the place to which someone or something is going or being sent |
| Economic Leakage | the outflow of money from the circular flow of income in an economy, occurring when income is diverted away from domestic consumption through savings, taxes, and imports |
| Geotagging | the process of embedding geographic location data—typically latitude and longitude—into digital content such as photos, videos, and social media posts, using GPS or similar positioning methods. |
| Insta Tourism | where social media, especially Instagram, influences where and how people travel |
| Market Segmentations | dividing a broad market into smaller, more homogeneous groups of customers based on shared characteristics, needs, or behaviors to enable targeted marketing strategies |
| Mass Tourism | large-scale commercial travel where huge numbers of people visit the same popular destinations at the same time, often via affordable package deals |
| MICE | a specialized sector of business travel that stands for Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions |
| Mid-Centric Travelers | the largest group of tourists |
| Nostalgic Sports Tourism | travel to historic stadiums, halls of fame, museums, and live events to connect with sports history, personal memories, and team traditions |
| Passive Sports Tourism | Traveling to watch live sporting events as a spectator |
| Plog’s Model | categorizes travelers by personality traits to explain why destinations rise and fall in popularity over time |
| Psychocentric Travelers | conservative, risk-averse individuals who prefer familiar, safe, and heavily developed destinations |
| Psychographics | market research method that classifies population groups based on psychological variables like attitudes, values, interests, and lifestyles |
| Target Market | specific group of consumers or businesses identified as the most likely buyers of a product or service |
| Typology | the systematic classification of tourists or forms of travel based on behaviors, motivations, and psychological profiles |
| Virtual Tourism | lets you explore global destinations, landmarks, and museums from your home using digital technology |