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Tourism 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Active Sports Tourism | a growing travel sector where people journey to a location outside their normal environment to directly participate in a sport or physical activity |
| Allocentric Travelers | an adventurous, self-confident explorer who seeks out new, uncommercialized, and exotic destinations |
| Business Tourism | traveling for professional, commercial, and work-related objectives rather than pure leisure |
| Corporate Hospitality Event | entertain clients, stakeholders, and employees in relaxed settings to build loyalty and strengthen professional relationships |
| Demographics | the statistical characteristics of human populations, such as age, race, income, and education, used to study group traits |
| Destination | the final place where a person, traveler, or package is going or being sent |
| Economic Leakage | the outflow of funds or income from a local or national circular economic flow |
| Geotagging | the process of adding geographical identification metadata |
| Insta Tourism | describes the trend where people choose travel destinations based on photos and videos seen on social media |
| Market Segmentations | divides a broad target market into smaller, manageable groups of consumers with shared characteristics to optimize marketing and product development |
| Mass tourism | large-scale commercial travel where huge numbers of people visit the same popular destinations at the same time |
| MICE | Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions |
| Mid-centric Travelers | a tourist who sits right in the middle of Stanley Plog’s psychographic model |
| Nostalgic Sports Tourism | a niche form of travel focused on visiting historical sports venues, halls of fame, museums, or attending commemorative sporting events |
| Passive Sports Tourism | traveling to a destination primarily to watch a sporting event as a spectator rather than to play or compete |
| Plog’s Model | a foundational psychographic framework created by psychologist Stanley Plog in 1974 that links traveler personality types to the life cycle and popularity |
| Psychographics | market research and statistics that classify people based on psychological variables like attitudes, values, interests, and lifestyle choices |
| Psychocentric travelers | a conservative, risk-averse tourist who prefers familiar, safe, and highly predictable destinations |
| Target market | a specific group of potential customers at which a company directs its products and marketing efforts |
| Typology | the systematic classification of travelers based on their preferences, behaviors, psychological profiles, and motivations |
| Virtual tourism | lets you explore global destinations, landmarks, and museums from your home using digital technology |
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