VFR Travel: An Examination of the Expenditures of VFR Travellers and their Hosts

Backer, Elisa

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“…There are new forms of families and from diverse cultural backgrounds to be considered along with changes in gender roles, children's stronger influence and family travel increasingly involving the extended family and multiple generations. This should lead to more creative and innovative marketing campaigns that would engage the young tourist, appeal to gay and lesbian families or relate directly to the VFR hosts (Backer 2007). Capturing travel purchasing behaviour in the future needs to reflect the rising diversity, multivocality and fluidity of families.…”

Section: Understanding New Purchasing Decisions For Businessmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Future of Family Tourism

Schänzel¹,

Yeoman²

2014

Tourism Recreation Research

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This paper situates current knowledge on family tourism with pointers to the future by drawing on multidisciplinary contributions to a recent consolidative book. Research in family tourism is limited, fragmented and individualized, thus not accounting for the diversity of family forms, sociality of family groups and multidimensionality of family experiences. Integration of thinking about and understanding the changing nature of families in tourism is needed. The key concepts of change are captured through a cognitive mapping perspective. This research process allows an exploration and systemic tool for constructivism interpretation. The cognitive model resulted in nine main themes that represent emerging and changing trends in family tourism. The key purpose here is the identification of the slow moving changes and trends that are occurring in family tourism based upon cognitive modelling of current research and their significance for predicting the future. This demonstrates connectivity between concepts providing a more holistic and critical interpretation of the future of families and tourism.

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The Future of Family Tourism

Schänzel¹,

Yeoman²

2014

Tourism Recreation Research

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“…As such, migration is an important contributing factor to VFR tourism leading to the progressive growth of the tourism-migration relationship (Dwyer, Seetaram, Forsyth & King, 2014). Backer (2007) described VFR travel as a form of travel whereby either (or both) the purpose of the trip or the type of accommodation involves visiting friends and/or relatives. Larsen, Urry and Axhausen (2007) posited that 'VFR tourism' is about being co-present with 'significant faces', being their guests, receiving their hospitality and, perhaps, enjoying their knowledge of local culture.…”

Section: The Concept Of Vfr Tourismmentioning

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Interactive mobilities: Conceptualising VFR tourism of international students

Tran

Moore

Shone

2018

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management

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The relationship between tourism and migration that has resulted from increasing global mobility is a complex phenomenon. As part of that phenomenon, research has shown a strong connection between international education, particularly at the tertiary level, and tourism. In particular, international students have been found to have a strong impact on the tourism industry of their study country. This paper investigates a specific form of tourism in which international students are involved: Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) tourism. It details an initial conceptual understanding of the relationship between international students and VFR tourism. A conceptual framework is developed to help illustrate this relationship, highlight new avenues for research, and indicate how this relationship connects with the wider tourism-migration literature. The framework suggests that the interface between VFR tourism and international students can be explained through a number of aspects, two of which are addressed in the paper: VFR travel behaviour and host-guest dynamics in VFR tourism of international students. These aspects are analysed throughout the pre-, during, and post study periods. The paper sheds further light on emerging VFR related concepts -such as VFR tourism in a third place -as well as theories regarding the notion of hosts and guests in the modern mobile world. Suggestions for future research are also provided.

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“…Some reason could be for trip cost saving and hosting. The VFR market can be presented through this model: The model above described that the VFR market fall into three typologies based on the accommodation and the purpose of visit ( Backer, 2007). The first one is PVFRs which called the pure VFR where the purpose of visit and the accommodation purely with friends and relatives.…”

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VFR Travel: An Examination of the Expenditures of VFR Travellers and their Hosts

Cited by 108 publications

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The Future of Family Tourism

The Future of Family Tourism

Interactive mobilities: Conceptualising VFR tourism of international students

Special Issue 4 : 2016

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