Essays about: "the psychology of tourism"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 12 essays containing the words the psychology of tourism.

  1. 6. Communicating Sustainable Nature-Based Tourism : A Mixed Method Approach to Investigate How Swedish Destination Marketing Organizations Promote Nature Destinations on Instagram

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/JMK

    Author : Franziska Ewigleben; [2020]
    Keywords : Sustainable Nature-Based Tourism; Instagram; Destination Marketing Organization; Social Marketing; Tourist Gaze; Environmental Psychology; Content Analysis; Semiotic Analysis; Sweden;

    Abstract : Around the globe, sensitive nature destinations suffer from media-mediated mass tourism. Especially, the social media network Instagram is often made responsible for these events as its emphasis on visuals is claimed to foster people’s ambition to reproduce photographs of themselves in the epic sceneries they see online. READ MORE

  3. 7. The effects of self-identity and personal norms on prospectivetourists’ pro-environmental behaviour: The relevance of Eco-labels in online accommodation booking

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

    Author : Jiaying He; [2019]
    Keywords : Environmental self-identity; Personal norms; Eco-labels; Pro-environmental behaviour; Online accommodation booking;

    Abstract : As environmental quality strongly depends on human behaviour patterns, more attentions have been paid to understand and promote pro-environmental behaviour in the tourism sector with sustainable development. This thesis focuses on online Eco-label accommodation booking as a tourist pro-environmental behavior to study the effects of environmental self-identity and personal norms on prospective tourists’ pro-environmental behaviour. READ MORE

  4. 8. Tourist or traveller? A study on social categorisation among non-residents in Gothenburg

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Agnes Karnatz; [2016-08-04]
    Keywords : urban tourism; Gothenburg; role identification; social identity theory; high and low culture; symbolic capital;

    Abstract : The purpose of this paper is to examine how non-residents in Gothenburg categorise themselves and why, relating to the concept of “a tourist”. The aim is thus to investigate the perception of being a tourist in a western city through how people define the concept and what social status it has today. READ MORE

  5. 9. The ABC of tourist attitudes towards wind industry in Skåne : affective, behavioral and cognitive dimensions

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Yulia Kalashnikova; [2016]
    Keywords : Skåne tourism; renewable energy; social psychology; behavior; feeling; reasoning; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The expansion of Swedish wind energy grid has come at the cost of environmental, economic and social controversy, in which the issue of landscape quality change plays a prominent role. Tourism, an industry highly reliant on visual consumption of the landscape, is especially sensitive to this change. READ MORE

  6. 10. A proposed Model for Country Branding : an experimental Application on Nigeria

    University essay from Företagsekonomi

    Author : Samuel Johnson Ogundipe; [2012]
    Keywords : Branding; Image Crisis; Rebranding; Tourism; Destination Image; Developmental Planning; Sustainable development; Country Branding Model; Nigeria;

    Abstract : In the era of globalization, countries compete with each other for attention, respect and trust of potential consumers, investors, tourists, media and governments of other nations. Branding is the most powerful tool that a nation can utilize for effective differentiation strategies and for creating competitive advantage over other nations. READ MORE