International Pleasure Travel Motivations and Post-Vacation Cultural Attitude Change

Tourism, as a significant form of interaction between nations and cultures has the potential to improve intercultural relations. This paper develops and tests a model of the relationships between international tourism and visitors' post-vacation attitudes toward the host or destination culture. Path analysis is used to examine the linkages between pleasure travel motivations, level of intercultural interaction, vacation satisfaction, and visitors' post-vacation attitudes. The results have important implications for understanding the role of tourism in changing visitors' attitudes and perception of host cultures.

[1]  J. N. Goodrich,et al.  Benefit Bundle Analysis: An Empirical Study of International Travelers , 1977 .

[2]  Wallace A. Dynes.  Education and Tolerance: An Analysis of Intervening Factors , 1967 .

[3]  J. B. Kernan,et al.  On the Meaning of Leisure: An Investigation of Some Determinants of the Subjective Experience , 1983 .

[4]  A. Pizam.  Tourism's Impacts: The Social Costs to the Destination Community as Perceived by Its Residents , 1978 .

[5]  Y. Amir,et al.  Contact hypothesis in ethnic relations. , 1969, Psychological bulletin.

[6]  A. Woodside,et al.  Segmenting Vacation Markets: The Case of the Distant and Near-Home Travelers , 1982 .

[7]  J. Crompton,et al.  A Study of the Attitudes of Impacted Groups Within a Host Community Toward Prolonged Stay Tourist Visitors , 1979 .

[8]  P. Pearce.  A Favorability-Satisfaction Model of Tourists' Evaluations , 1980 .

[9]  S. E. Iso-Ahola,et al.  Social psychological foundations of leisure and resultant implications for leisure counseling. , 1984 .

[10]  J. Mann.  The Effect of Inter-Racial Contact on Socio-Metric Choices and Perceptions , 1959 .

[11]  S. Iso-Ahola,et al.  Toward a social psychological theory of tourism motivation: A rejoinder , 1982 .

[12]  Y. Amir,et al.  International Tourism, Ethnic Contact, and Attitude Change. , 1985 .

[13]  R. Calantone,et al.  Seasonal Segmentation of the Tourism Market Using a Benefit Segmentation Framework , 1984 .

[14]  Jerry W. Robinson,et al.  Equal-Status Contact and Modification of Racial Prejudice: A Reexamination of the Contact Hypothesis , 1976 .

[15]  R. McLellan,et al.  Negative Images of the United States as Expressed by Tour Operators From Other Countries , 1983 .

[16]  J. Reed.  Getting to Know You: The Contact Hypothesis Applied to the Sectional Beliefs and Attitudes of White Southerners , 1980 .

[17]  R. A. Kass,et al.  Leisure activities and need satisfaction: a replication and extension. , 1978 .

[18]  G. Dann.  Tourist motivation: an appraisal. , 1981 .

[19]  J. Rovelstad,et al.  Benefit segmentation of U.S. international travelers: an empirical study with American Express. , 1980 .

[20]  P. Schul,et al.  Search Behavior of International Vacationers: Travel-Specific Lifiestyle and Sociodemographic Variables , 1983 .

[21]  G. A. Miller,et al.  Book Review Nisbett, R. , & Ross, L.Human inference: Strategies and shortcomings of social judgment.Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980. , 1982 .

[22]  H. Kelman.  Changing Attitudes Through International Activities1 , 1962 .

[23]  M. Goldstein,et al.  Multivariate Analysis: Methods and Applications , 1984 .

[24]  J. Hollender.  Motivational Dimensions of the Camping Experience , 1977 .

[25]  J. Crompton.  Motivations for pleasure vacation , 1979 .

[26]  A. Woodside,et al.  Ste p Two in Benefit Segmentation: Learning the Benefits Realized by Major Travel Markets , 1985 .

[27]  J. Xander,et al.  Model specification: Reply to Loeb , 1985 .

[28]  Jerry W. Robinson,et al.  On Modification of Interracial Interaction , 1974 .

[29]  J. Lounsbury,et al.  An investigation of factors associated with vacation satisfaction , 1985 .

[30]  E. Hirschman.  Leisure Motives and Sex Roles , 1984 .

[31]  S. Iso-Ahola,et al.  Psychological nature of leisure and tourism experience , 1987 .