Who is the ideal tourist?

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Dwyer, Larry
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2016
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More and more attention is being paid to determining the characteristics of the 'ideal tourist'. Although no definition has the full support of all researchers, the attributes of the 'ideal tourist' include 'high consumption', 'responsibility', 'care', 'inclusion', 'environmental awareness',' cultural sensitivity ',' search for valuable social encounters ', etc. The paper argues that different economic measures serve different purposes and are already insufficient to accurately determine the' ideal tourist '. A framework for determining important social and environmental behavior is presented, which, in addition to economic ...
View more >More and more attention is being paid to determining the characteristics of the 'ideal tourist'. Although no definition has the full support of all researchers, the attributes of the 'ideal tourist' include 'high consumption', 'responsibility', 'care', 'inclusion', 'environmental awareness',' cultural sensitivity ',' search for valuable social encounters ', etc. The paper argues that different economic measures serve different purposes and are already insufficient to accurately determine the' ideal tourist '. A framework for determining important social and environmental behavior is presented, which, in addition to economic measures, improve both the notion of the ideal tourist and its inclusion in the field of 'sustainability'. Some possible valuation techniques are also discussed, as well as the inherent challenges of putting the concept of 'sustainable yield' into practice.
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View more >More and more attention is being paid to determining the characteristics of the 'ideal tourist'. Although no definition has the full support of all researchers, the attributes of the 'ideal tourist' include 'high consumption', 'responsibility', 'care', 'inclusion', 'environmental awareness',' cultural sensitivity ',' search for valuable social encounters ', etc. The paper argues that different economic measures serve different purposes and are already insufficient to accurately determine the' ideal tourist '. A framework for determining important social and environmental behavior is presented, which, in addition to economic measures, improve both the notion of the ideal tourist and its inclusion in the field of 'sustainability'. Some possible valuation techniques are also discussed, as well as the inherent challenges of putting the concept of 'sustainable yield' into practice.
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Journal Title
Acta Turistica
Volume
28
Issue
2
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© The Author(s) 2016. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Subject
Tourism
Social Sciences
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Social Sciences - Other Topics
Ideal tourist
economic yield