Personal Values and Travel Decisions

Pitts, Robert E.; Woodside, Arch G.

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“…Socio-demographic variables (age, income, gender, education) are argued, in this framework, not to be the determinants of travel, but to contribute toward the shaping of subjective travel motivations (Mathieson & Wall 1982). Behavioural analysis identifies preferred travel patterns and personal evaluations of a tourist destination, referring to travel preferences, needs and motivations rather than actual travel behaviour (Mazanec 1984;Mclntosh & Goeldner 1986;Pitts & Woodside 1986). A destination's perceived attributes can be substantially enhanced through the marketing strategies of national tourist organisations.…”

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Korean students’ assessment of Australia as a holiday destination

Waitt¹

1996

Australian Geographer

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Tourism is the fastest growing portion of the Australian economy. Increasing the number of overseas visitors to Australia, particularly from new markets in Asia, is essential to maintain this growth. Within the Asian market, the Republic of Korea, since the liberation of outbound travel in 1989, has recorded one of the world's highest levels of increase in outbound tourism. Although from 1988 to 1991 departures by Koreans for sightseeing travel increased from 134 000 to 651 000, Australia remained a marginal travel destination; actual travel patterns favoured Japan, North America and Europe. By occupation, university students comprised one of the largest socio-economic market segments of these travellers. A structured questionnaire was distributed in four university campuses in Seoul to assess Korean students' preferred vacation motivations, destinations, activities, descriptive word-images of Australia and their gendered differentiation. Results suggest that structural constraints of the tourist industry, rather than socio-demographic or psychographic barriers for the Korean students, are preventing them from travelling to Australia. KEY WORDS Australia; Republic of Korea; tourist flows; functional tourist space; representations of place.

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Korean students’ assessment of Australia as a holiday destination

Waitt¹

1996

Australian Geographer

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“…Among these variables are the following: preferences and the willingness-to-pay for Fairtrade certified products (Doran, 2009(Doran, , 2010Grankvist & Kajonius, 2015;Ma & Lee, 2012); ecocentric and anthropocentric environmental philosophies (Grankvist, 2015;Nordlund & Garvill, 2002;Schultz & Zelezny, 1999); political views (Cochrane, Billig, & Hogg, 1979;Schwartz, Caprara, & Vecchione, 2010); attitudes towards genetically modified food products (Dreezens, Martijn, Tenbült, Kok, & De Vries, 2005); intentions to visit major recreational attractions (Pitts & Woodside, 1986); attitudes toward e-shopping (Jayawardhena, 2004); political orientation on a left-right scale (Piurko, Schwartz, & Davidov, 2011); militaristic attitudes (Cohrs, Moschner, Maes, & Kielmann, 2005) and gender (Beutel & Marini, 1995;Dietz, Kalof, & Stern, 2002;Schwartz & Rubel, 2005).…”

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The Relationship between Mind-Body Dualism and Personal Values

Grankvist¹,

Kajonius²,

Persson³

2016

IJPS

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Dualists view the mind and the body as two fundamental different "things", equally real and independent of each other. Cartesian thought, or substance dualism, maintains that the mind and body are two different substances, the non-physical and the physical, and a causal relationship is assumed to exist between them. Physicalism, on the other hand, is the idea that everything that exists is either physical or totally dependent of and determined by physical items. Hence, all mental states are fundamentally physical states. In the current study we investigated to what degree Swedish university students' beliefs in mind-body dualism is explained by the importance they attach to personal values. A self-report inventory was used to measure their beliefs and values. Students who held stronger dualistic beliefs attach less importance to the power value (i.e., the effort to achieve social status, prestige, and control or dominance over people and resources). This finding shows that the strength in laypeople's beliefs in dualism is partially explained by the importance they attach to personal values.

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“…(Pitts & Woodside, 1983, p. 37). Further support for the impact of personal values on choice criteria has been shown through empirical investigations, including evidence of value systems' influence on the importance tourists attached to different activities (Madrigal & Kahle, 1994;Pitts & Woodside, 1986) and ratings of destination attributes (Muller, 1991).…”

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“…Past research suggests that choice criteria importance (e.g., I consider a whitening agent to be an extremely important attribute of toothpaste) is a more abstract, less object-bound construct as compared to attitude (e.g., I think purchasing toothpaste is good), but more tied to an object than personal values (e.g., self-esteem) (Homer & Kahle, 1988;Madrigal & Kahle, 1994;Muller, 1991;Pitts & Woodside, 1983, 1986. Therefore, it is proposed that a personal values -choice criteria importance -attitude -purchase intention hierarchical structure, manifesting a most-toleast abstract cognitive causal flow, will be a feasible tool for studying Japanese consumers' cognitive processes in a formal gift-giving context.…”

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“…First, some researchers have found that consumers' attitudes mediate their personal values and behavior (Homer & Kahle, 1988;Shim & Eastlick, 1998). Second, research has emphasized the direct linkage between a consumer's personal values and the importance he or she attaches to particular product attributes (e.g., Madrigal & Kahle, 1994;Muller, 1991;Pitts & Woodside, 1983, 1986. Similarly, research utilizing the means -end theory has been used to detect the relationship between personal values and product attributes by linking product attributes (means) to the consequences or benefits that product attributes imply and, ultimately to their personal values or motives (ends) (e.g., Gutman, 1982;Reynolds & Gutman, 1988).…”

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A study of Japanese consumers' cognitive hierarchies in formal and informal gift‐giving situations

Lotz¹,

Shim²,

Gehrt³

2002

Psychology and Marketing

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In recent years, academicians have shown an increasing interest in Asian gift-giving behavior. Yet studies investigating Asians' cognitive hierarchical structures in the gift-giving context have been limited. Additionally, the literature suggests that Asian consumers' cognitive structures are particularly affected by situational contingencies. Thus, this study examines Japanese consumers' cognitive hierarchies, in a gift-giving context, in formal and informal situations utilizing a most-abstract to least-abstract cognitive hierarchical framework. Data were collected through a mail survey of Japanese consumers in the greater Tokyo area and six other major metropolitan cities. As hypothesized, structural-equation modeling results revealed that the Japanese consumer's cognitive hierarchical flow from most-to least-abstract cognitions remained intact regardless of the situation. In contrast, as expected, differing situations were found to influence intercognitive dimensional relationships. Implications of these findings are discussed. ᭧

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Personal Values and Travel Decisions

Cited by 140 publications

References 11 publications

Korean students’ assessment of Australia as a holiday destination

Korean students’ assessment of Australia as a holiday destination

The Relationship between Mind-Body Dualism and Personal Values

A study of Japanese consumers' cognitive hierarchies in formal and informal gift‐giving situations

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