Car decals as a new data source for self-drive tourists

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Buckley, R
Ollenburg, C
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2012
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This study looks at the practice of displaying customized commercially made decals on car windows, titled "My Family", with cartoon representations of family members equipped for their preferred recreational activities. It considers these car decals a source of data on self-drive domestic tourism. For this study, 180 vehicles bearing the "My Family" decals, recorded at two main highways of the Gold Coast region of southern Queensland, were analysed. The results indicate that these decals do indeed provide a new valuable source of data on people's self perception and self representations of leisure and recreational activities ...
View more >This study looks at the practice of displaying customized commercially made decals on car windows, titled "My Family", with cartoon representations of family members equipped for their preferred recreational activities. It considers these car decals a source of data on self-drive domestic tourism. For this study, 180 vehicles bearing the "My Family" decals, recorded at two main highways of the Gold Coast region of southern Queensland, were analysed. The results indicate that these decals do indeed provide a new valuable source of data on people's self perception and self representations of leisure and recreational activities for the self-drive tourist market. They are displayed by families of all sizes, including single individuals. If car value is an indicator of socio-economic status, they cross every stratum of Australian society.
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View more >This study looks at the practice of displaying customized commercially made decals on car windows, titled "My Family", with cartoon representations of family members equipped for their preferred recreational activities. It considers these car decals a source of data on self-drive domestic tourism. For this study, 180 vehicles bearing the "My Family" decals, recorded at two main highways of the Gold Coast region of southern Queensland, were analysed. The results indicate that these decals do indeed provide a new valuable source of data on people's self perception and self representations of leisure and recreational activities for the self-drive tourist market. They are displayed by families of all sizes, including single individuals. If car value is an indicator of socio-economic status, they cross every stratum of Australian society.
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Journal Title
Tourism Recreation Research
Volume
37
Issue
2
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© 2012 Tourism Recreation Research. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
Subject
Tourism
Tourism forecasting