Why do people go on holiday? One of the fundamental questions that researchers of tourism ask is why do people go on holiday? This essay will argue that tourists go on holiday for a number of diverse reasons, not all of which are apparent to the tourist themselves or to the many theorists who seek to analyse the tapestry of tourist motives. The majority of discussions on the reasons why people go on holiday tend …
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…mass tourist, the explorer and the drifter. With these four typologies in mind it was possible to categorise tourists in terms of destination pull factors. Thus, providing evidence that not all tourists have the same requirement from time spent on holiday. In sum, human physiological needs (push factors) are fundamental grounds for understanding why people go on holiday, to attractions (pull factors) which provide a ba! lance of stimulation-tranquillity, familiarity-strangeness, structure and independence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**