Motivation and personality traits for choosing religious tourism. A research on the case of Medjugorje
By Costanza Scaffidi Abbate, S. D. Di Nuovo. 2013
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Religion has long been a primary motivation for journeys and it is considered the oldest non-economic reason for travelling. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reasons tourists choose to travel to sacred sites, with the specific aim of discovering relationships between personality traits and motivations for religious travel. Participating in the research were 679 Italian travellers to Medjugorje sanctuary, who completed the travel motivation scale and big five questionnaire. The results show that motivation is focused prevalently on the need for discovery in men and socialisation in women. Multiple regression analyses demonstrated that personality traits are predictive of motivation factors differently for males and females.
Subfields: Geography, Planning and Development, Sociology and Political Science
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- User-generated-content versus marketing-generated-content: personality and content influence on traveler’s behavior (2018, background): “Abbate and Di Nuovo (2013) demonstrated that the Big Five traits can inspire people to travel according to 3 categories of motives: “curiosity and discovery”, “out-of-routine”, and “self and sociality”.”