Grounded Theory of Leisure Travel

Woodside, Arch G.; MacDonald, Roberta M.; Burford, Marion R.

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“…The data for this study were self-reported by executives. As such, the data may refl ect their own personal opinions and biases ( Woodside et al , 2004 ). The lack of reporting or mention of a condition or factor neither concludes nor suggests that the factor or condition is not present or is not of concern to the industry.…”

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Timeshare and vacation ownership executives’ analysis of the industry and the future

Stringam

2010

J Retail Leisure Property

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This study sought information from key executives involved in shaping the timeshare and vacation ownership industry in conducting a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis for the industry. The vacation ownership and timeshare industry has emerged as a sector of the travel industry with signifi cant opportunities for growth and development. The fi ndings of this study indicate that there are opportunities in many markets, segments and product offerings. The vacation ownership industry must overcome weaknesses in marketing processes, taxation concerns and amenities. It faces threats in the availability of human and capital resources, natural disasters and legal and taxation concerns. INTRODUCTIONVacation ownership is the fastest growing segment of the travel industry, and has enjoyed signifi cant growth for the past few decades ( Scoviak, 2004 ;Hayward, 2005 ;Gilligan, 2006;Ragatz, 2007 ) alone have changed from sales of converted condominium units to purpose-built vacation destinations with intricate point systems allowing for trade of many travel related products ( Scoviak, 2003 ).

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Timeshare and vacation ownership executives’ analysis of the industry and the future

Stringam

2010

J Retail Leisure Property

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“…This especially concerns research which analyzes different processes over longer periods of time (TOIVONEN 2001(TOIVONEN , 2003, and focus on the selected and precisely determined problems (CORREIA et al 2007, ALEJZIAK 2000. The most valuable research is that which attempts to elaborate various theories pertaining to tourism behaviour (PEARCE 2005, PIZAM, MANS-FELD 1999, WOODSIDE, MACDONALD, BURFORD 2004, and creates consumer decision-making models as well as tourist typologies (DERCOP, SNELDERS 2005, LUND-GREN 2004. In summary, research on tourist activity (aside from measuring its level and structure) provides interesting information concerning the causes and scale of the social diversity of tourism, as well as the factors that generate the process of exclusion in tourism participation.…”

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Tourist activity: international and domestic diversification and the problem of social exclusion

Alejziak

2012

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This article presents the international and domestic diversification of tourist activity. In the former case, it focuses on analyses of the general level of tourist activity, expressed in the ‘tourist activity rate’, while with regards to the inhabitants of Poland, analyses were conducted on the diversification of tourist activity across various socio-demographic categories. For international comparisons, the wide-ranging research conducted by EUROSTAT in 2011 on representative samples of the inhabitants of 32 European countries was used. The diversification of Polish tourist activity in the context of social exclusion, on the other hand, is presented on the basis of the author's research and calculations. Statistical analyses were employed: Kendall's Tau-b rank correlation coefficient and cluster analysis.

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“…In abductive inference, one reasons from a rule and a result to a case (Eco, 1976;Eco & Sebeok, 1983;Holbrook & Grayson, 1986;Mick, 1986). For example, couples traveling together discuss possible travel destination routes for their upcoming trip before booking air travel tickets (the rule); in the case studies in this report, couples report moving from disagreeing to concurrence about routes to take before finalizing trip plans (the result); therefore, husbands and wives participating in the study are illustrative of pre-trip negotiations (the case).Prior studies of tourist purchase consumption systems provide guidance for grounded theory construction (Woodside & Dubelaar, 2002;Woodside & King, 2001;Woodside, MacDonald, & Burford, 2004). Purchase decisions are a sequence of mental and observable steps undertaken by consumers to buy and use products.…”

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“…The present study attempts to describe the conscious (cognitive task problem solving) and unconscious (automatic uncontrollable retrievals and unplanned responses to in situ previously unknown stimuli; see Wilson, 2002) within specific contexts in leisure travel (cf. Woodside, MacDonald, & Burford, 2004). From the data, streams of processing and behaviors surface showing relationships among: (1) antecedent-to-trip conditions, (2) trip planning strategies, (3) destination activities and outcomes, and (4) outcome evaluations.…”

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Gestalt modeling of international tourism behavior: Applying dimensional qualitative research in constructing grounded theory

Martin¹,

Woodside²

2011

Psychology and Marketing

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Conventional, dominant logic research methods include collecting and analyzing data to test hypotheses in a deductive theory using empirical positivistic methods. In contrast, grounded theory (i.e., building and revising propositional statements of relationships from questioning and observing informants in specific use contexts) constructs theory from data (Glaser & Strauss, 1967). This article demonstrates the application of McCracken's (1988) long interview method to collect data for grounded theory construction. Both emic (self) and etic (researcher) interpretations of international visitor experiences focus on making sense of leisure travel thinking processes (including unconscious/conscious beliefs, attitudes, and choices) and tourist behavior. In this article, long interviews of Japanese tourists visiting Hawaii's Big Island enable mapping and comparing visitors' plans, motivations, choices, and consequences. The results demonstrate nuanced complexities of visitors' travel-related unconscious/ conscious thinking and behavior. Also, the findings uncover the Psychology & Marketing, Vol. 28(10) The present article responds to Cohen's (1999) proposal that quality in qualitative research with consumers is best achievable through the systematic application of a psychological model that allows for innovation. Cohen adapts Lazarus's (1989aLazarus's ( , 1989b multi-model therapy methods to consumer psychology to provide both foundation and useful structure for achieving thoroughness in case study data collection and for advancing innovations to theory. Dimensional qualitative research (DQR) is Cohen's (1999) label for his transformation of Lazarus's seven modalities in his consumer psychology paradigm for improving qualitative research. The acronym BASIC ID includes these modalities: behavior, affect, sensation, imagery, cognition, interpersonal relations, and drugs.Applying the following summary propositions in Cohen's (1999) BASIC ID consumer psychology paradigm informs gestalt qualitative modeling in consumer psychology.(1) Behavior refers not so much to what people think or believe as to what they do. (2) Affect: People strive to maintain what psychologists refer to as an optimal level of arousal. (3) Sensation refers to perception of visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, and related sensory input-consumers experience sensations in contexts and not in a vacuum. (4) Imagery refers both to stimuli depicted in the real world (as in the pictures depicted in advertising) and to those more elusive and unique representations perceived only in the mind's eye. (5) Cognition refers to thoughts, beliefs, attributions, rationales, values, and all that comes to be known or believed through (unconscious and conscious) perception. (6) Interpersonal relations: We are all social beings; some products may be, in a sense, "social," while other products are "asocial." (7) Drugs (perhaps more aptly, the physical dimensions of products and services; see Cohen, 1999, p. 363) apply to all physical aspects of produc...

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Grounded Theory of Leisure Travel

Cited by 77 publications

References 18 publications

Timeshare and vacation ownership executives’ analysis of the industry and the future

Timeshare and vacation ownership executives’ analysis of the industry and the future

Tourist activity: international and domestic diversification and the problem of social exclusion

Gestalt modeling of international tourism behavior: Applying dimensional qualitative research in constructing grounded theory

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