Sensation seeking and the prediction of attitudes and behaviours of wine tourists
| Autor: | Richard Mitchell, Donald Getz, Ben Ong, Geoffrey I. Crouch, Graeme Galloway |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Wine
Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject food and beverages Transportation Development Winery Personal income Market segmentation Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Personality Household income Sensation seeking Marketing Psychology Social psychology Consumer behaviour media_common |
| Zdroj: | Tourism Management. 29:950-966 |
| ISSN: | 0261-5177 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.tourman.2007.11.006 |
| Popis: | Although socio-economic variables are commonly used for market segmentation and are widely applied in describing winery visitors, increasing awareness is evident in the literature that personality might also be useful for that purpose. The present study examined whether, compared with socio-economic variables (age, gender, education level, personal income, and household income), the personality variable sensation seeking adds to the ability to predict differences in various attitudes and behaviours of wine tourists. With the effects of the former controlled, sensation seeking was observed to be significantly related to spending on wine, and wine drinking, as well as to the frequency of visits to wineries and the number of activities engaged in at wineries, the use of the internet as a source of information about wineries, venturing off the beaten track during a visit to a wine region, and the strength of opportunity for learning, stimulation, or indulgence as incentives to visit a wine region. Sensation seeking was also observed to be significantly related to all but one of those variables when the effects of another variable which is receiving increasing attention as a means by which to characterize wine tourists, “involvement”, were controlled. The practical significance of the results for winery and wine region marketing and management is discussed, and several requirements for further research are identified. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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