Tourist roles: Needs and the Lifecourse

By H. Gibson, A. Yiannakis. 2002

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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How Visitors and Locals at a Sport Event Differ in Motives and Identity (2008, background): “Age differences in tourism preferences are most readily explained with reference to life course expectations (Gibson & Yiannakis, 2002).”
Perceptions of Risk and Travel Intentions: The Case of China and the Beijing Olympic Games (2009, background): “Younger people tend to be more adventurous travelers (Gibson & Yiannakis, 2002), as do individuals with higher levels of education (Graburn, 1983).”
Cultural Differences in Travel Risk Perception (2006, background): “Gibson and Yiannakis (2002) reported that preference for risk in tourism decreases with age.”
Tourism, risk tolerance and competences: Travel organization and tourism hazards ☆ (2013, background): “This is substantiated in tourism by Gibson and Yiannakis (2002), although Sönmez and Graefe (1998a) did not find any consistent relationships between age and risk perception.”
Destination Image and Intent to Visit China and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (2008, methodology): “Gibson and Yiannakis (2002) applied the Levinson’s model of the adult life cycle (Levinson, 1978, 1996) to understand stability and change in tourist role preference with age.”
Travel Anxiety and Intentions to Travel Internationally: Implications of Travel Risk Perception (2005, background): “…Sonmez and Graefe (1998a) did not find age and gender to influence an individual’s perception of risk, other researchers found that tolerance for risk related to tourism decreases with age (Gibson and Yiannakis 2002) and differs according to gender (Carr 2001; Gibson and Jordan 1998a, 1998b).”
Living on the Edge: The Appeal of Risk Sports for the Professional Middle Class (2008, background): “…adolescence and early adulthood are typically considered periods suitable for “[a]dventure, experimentation, and the avoidance of strong commitments” (Gibson & Yiannakis, 2002, p. 374), after which individuals receive more societal pressure to “settle down” and “get serious” (see also Dallas,…”
Taking a “Peak” at Leisure Travelers’ Positive Emotions (2012, methodology): “…for four demographic variables based on evidence suggesting that age (Fleischer & Pizam, 2002; Gibson & Yiannakis, 2002), gender (Fleischer & Pizam, 2002; Gibson & Yiannakis, 2002), marital status (Carr & Cohen, 2009), and retirement status (Nimrod, 2008) shape leisure travel experiences.”
Effects of Gender Differences on Perceptions of Destination Attributes, Motivations, and Travel Values: An Examination of a Nature-Based Resort Destination (2008, background): “The concept of tourism and leisure motivation is one of the most critical factors in understanding tourist behaviour and it has been widely studied since the 1970s (Gibson & Yiannakis, 2002).”
Changes in emotions and their interactions with personality in a vacation context (2014, methodology): “We chose to recruit adults 45e65 years of age because they represent an older population that exhibits similar life course needs (Gibson & Yiannakis, 2002), emotional responses to aging (Brown & Osborn, 2006; Strenger, 2009), and interest in traveling (Pearce & Lee, 2005).”