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

dc.contributor.authorRyu, Eunju
dc.contributor.authorHyun, Sunghyup Sean
dc.contributor.authorShim, Changsup
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-27T08:02:19Z
dc.date.available2019-06-27T08:02:19Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThe 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.citation19
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10548408.2014.895478en_US
dc.identifier.endpage338
dc.identifier.issn1054-8408en_US
dc.identifier.issn1540-7306en_US
dc.identifier.issn1054-8408
dc.identifier.issn1540-7306
dc.identifier.issue4
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84929943813en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage325en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/597
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/10548408.2014.895478
dc.identifier.volume32en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000355104200001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.institutionauthorShim, Changsupen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.journalJournal Of Travel & Tourism Marketingen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectTouristic communitasen_US
dc.subjectLiminalityen_US
dc.subjectTourist motivationsen_US
dc.subjectHuman relationshipsen_US
dc.subjectOlder individuals in Japanen_US
dc.titleCreating New Relationships Through Tourism: A Qualitative Analysis of Tourist Motivations of Older Individuals in Japanen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication

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