Creating New Relationships Through Tourism: a Qualitative Analysis of Tourist Motivations of Older Individuals in Japan

dc.contributor.author Ryu, Eunju
dc.contributor.author Hyun, Sunghyup Sean
dc.contributor.author Shim, Changsup
dc.date.accessioned 2019-06-27T08:02:19Z
dc.date.available 2019-06-27T08:02:19Z
dc.date.issued 2015
dc.description.abstract The current study is an exploration to examine older Japanese individuals' motivations for travel. The study employed an open-ended survey and in-depth interviews in order to gain insight into the creation of human relationships through tourism. Our results show that tourism is perceived as offering extraordinary opportunities to meet new people and to form and develop new relationships by Japanese older individuals who experience fewer opportunities to interact with other people in their everyday lives compared to individuals in younger generations. In particular distinct features of tourism settings such as liminality and touristic communitas allow older tourists to express themselves more freely by escaping from their existing relationships as well as from many social norms hierarchies and prohibitions. en_US]
dc.identifier.citationcount 19
dc.identifier.doi 10.1080/10548408.2014.895478 en_US
dc.identifier.endpage 338
dc.identifier.issn 1054-8408 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1540-7306 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1054-8408
dc.identifier.issn 1540-7306
dc.identifier.issue 4
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-84929943813 en_US
dc.identifier.scopusquality Q1
dc.identifier.startpage 325 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/597
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1080/10548408.2014.895478
dc.identifier.volume 32 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000355104200001 en_US
dc.identifier.wosquality Q1
dc.institutionauthor Shim, Changsup en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd en_US
dc.relation.journal Journal Of Travel & Tourism Marketing en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 29
dc.subject Touristic communitas en_US
dc.subject Liminality en_US
dc.subject Tourist motivations en_US
dc.subject Human relationships en_US
dc.subject Older individuals in Japan en_US
dc.title Creating New Relationships Through Tourism: a Qualitative Analysis of Tourist Motivations of Older Individuals in Japan en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.wos.citedbyCount 20
dspace.entity.type Publication

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