Health or self‐indulgence? The motivations and characteristics of spa‐goers

Mak, Athena H.N.; Wong, Kevin K. F.; Chang, Richard C.Y.

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“…It can be defined as the 'global integrating network of biological and cultural forces which gives value and direction to travel choices, behaviour, and experience' (Pearce, Morrison, & Rutledge, 1998, p. 215). Tourist motivation embraces psychological as well as physiological facets because travel is expected to satisfy different levels of needs such as psychological (e.g., intrinsic, personal, and interpersonal rewards) and physiological needs (e.g., food, shelter, safety, health, and fitness) (Mak, Wong, & Chang, 2009;Witt & Wright, 1992). Since tourist motivation exerts significant influence over tourist choice and behaviour, it can be a significant force affecting tourist food consumption.…”

Section: Motivational Factorsmentioning

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Factors influencing tourist food consumption

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Factors influencing tourist food consumption

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“…The push and pull model (Crompton, 1979;Dann, 1977Dann, , 1981 is well accepted in tourist motivation studies (Funk, Alexandris, & Ping, 2009;Mak, Wong, & Chang, 2009;Uysal, Li, & Sirkaya-Turk, 2008) and has been applied in various cultural settings (Hanqin & Lam, 1999;Schofield 4 & Thompson, 2007;and Yuan & McDonald, 1990). It has also been applied in several event motivation studies within different cultural settings, for example, Zyl and Botha's (2004) study in South Africa, several studies in the USA (Bowen & Daniels, 2005;Dodd et al, 2006), and Chang's (2005) study in Taiwan.…”

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Music festival motivation in China: free the mind

Wood

2014

Leisure Studies

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This paper explores the extent to which music festival attendance is 'universally' motivated or determined by the Chinese cultural and socio-political context.A novel qualitative approach was employed comprising observation of social media conversations and 'chat room' interviews with members of a festival online community. Seven motivators were identified, some similar to those in Western studies but others more specific to festival-goers in mainland China.The culturally specific motivators were identified as 'spiritual escape' and 'spiritual pursuit' and the universal motivators as 'togetherness', 'love of the music', 'novel experience', 'music sharing', and 'educational enrichment'. This paper focuses on the two culturally embedded motivators only.The implications of the study are that, although, growing, there are still very few music festivals featuring 'pop' or 'western' style music and these few are relatively new to Chinese people. Their attendance at them is, therefore, motivated differently to attendees at similar festivals in western countries. These motivating factors are mediated by the particular social, political and cultural factors at work in this complex country. The findings indicate that although many of the motivational factors for attending a music festival appear to be universal there are clearly factors which are culturally bound and therefore unique to the cultural context. These differences appear to be created by the social constraints, rapidly changing economy and the many contradictions inherent in modern mainland China. These conditions create a greater contrast between everyday life in mainland China and the liminal hedonistic space provided by the Festival. Further research is needed to validate theses initial findings within China and to explore how rock music festival motivations differ in other non-western cultures.

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“…8, No. 9; wellness or ecotourist, the main criterion in choosing the participants of the survey was the strong similarity between the samples' demographic characteristics and that of the typical wellness tourist (Lehto, Brown, Chen, & Morrison 2006, Mak, Wong & Chang, 2009, Voigt, Brown, & Howat, 2011 or ecotourist (Galley & Clifton, 2004, Wearing & Neil, 2009, do Paço, Alves, & Nunes, 2012. Table 1.…”

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Mindfulness and Sustainability: Utilizing the Tourism Context

Lengyel¹

2015

JSD

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After several decades of sustainability efforts humanity is still on track to worst-case climate scenario. Other planetary boundaries have also been transgressed. The symptoms point to a root cause termed by many as a crisis of perception and value system. Our consumption-oriented world view is unsustainable. What can catalyze a perceptual paradigm shift needed to avoid global socio-ecological collapse in the long-run? Besides its manifold beneficial effects tested clinically, mindfulness has been found to be positively correlated with sustainable behavior. The article gives a theoretical grounding of mindfulness highlighting some new aspects and argues that the tourism context serves as an exceptionally suitable medium for learning mindfulness techniques. Expanding on earlier openness to new experience and Google Trends research of the author it is demonstrated that tourists have a markedly raised level of openness to new experience and also that there is a strong demand side business case for developing more mindfulness-based tourism products both globally and specifically for Hungary. The study provides further evidence of the short fade-out period of positive vacation effects and shows what type of destinations and accommodations potential wellness and ecotourists consider best for learning mindfulness.

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Health or self‐indulgence? The motivations and characteristics of spa‐goers

Cited by 172 publications

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Factors influencing tourist food consumption

Factors influencing tourist food consumption

Music festival motivation in China: free the mind

Mindfulness and Sustainability: Utilizing the Tourism Context

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