Reasons behind taking international pleasure trips during a pending war: a proposed typology

• Autores: Omar Moufakkir
• Localización: Tourism analysis, ISSN 1083-5423, Vol. 11, Nº 6, 2006, págs. 421-425
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • People take international pleasure trips for different reasons. The objective of this study was to investigate the reasons behind taking international pleasure trips during wartime. The research took place during the second week of the Iraq war. Recognizing safety as a strong factor that influences travel and vacation taking, we randomly selected 118 international tourists in Tenerife, Spain, and asked them the following question: "Why have you taken an international pleasure trip despite the pending war?" A content analysis of this question resulted in the following four categories: "get away," "war is outside Tenerife," "booked before," and "tradition." Based on these results and informal unstructured interviews with respondents, a typology has been attempted. We were able to identify four groups that we named: (1) The travel hard tourists, (2) The fatalistic tourists, (3) The orthodox tourists, and (4) The optimistic tourists