RIS ID
12103
Abstract
The usefulness of investigating fears tourists associate with leisure travel as basis for strategic and operational marketing is investigated. Tourism-related fears are elicited from the tourism marketplace to gain insight into the precise risks today’s tourists perceive and heterogeneity of respondents with regard to these risk perceptions are investigated in the context of domestic and overseas travel. Distinctly different patterns of perceived risks emerge for different destination contexts as well as subsegments of tourists. This knowledge could form a good basis for optimising marketing communication messages to address tourists’ concerns more effectively.
Publication Details
This article was originally published as: Dolnicar, S, Understanding barriers to leisure travel - tourist fears as marketing basis, Journal of Vacation Marketing, 2005, 11(3), 197-208. Copyright Sage Publications Ltd 2005.