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  • Away from Home: A New Revelation of Young Tourist Behavior

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    Author(s)
    Mura, P
    Khoo-Lattimore, C
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Khoo, Catheryn S.
    Year published
    2011
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    Although the economic and sociocultural significance of the youth tourism market highlights the importance of conducting research on the young tourist, there is a lack of in-depth exploration and understanding of young tourists' experiences on holiday. The aim of this article is to explore young beach-oriented tourists' behavior on holiday by employing a qualitative research method. Twenty-five young tourists in Ios, Greece were observed systematically over a 3-month period and then interviewed. The findings reveal that drug consumption (including alcohol) and unprotected sex were common activities among the young tourists ...
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    Although the economic and sociocultural significance of the youth tourism market highlights the importance of conducting research on the young tourist, there is a lack of in-depth exploration and understanding of young tourists' experiences on holiday. The aim of this article is to explore young beach-oriented tourists' behavior on holiday by employing a qualitative research method. Twenty-five young tourists in Ios, Greece were observed systematically over a 3-month period and then interviewed. The findings reveal that drug consumption (including alcohol) and unprotected sex were common activities among the young tourists on Ios. More interestingly, the results show that patterns of behavior on holiday were often discussed by the young tourists in relation to patterns of behavior in the home environment. This finding has important implications because it further advances our understanding of the relationship between the tourism experience and the leisure experience in the home environment.
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    Journal Title
    Tourism Analysis
    Volume
    16
    Issue
    6
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.3727/108354211X13228713394921
    Copyright Statement
    © 2011 Cognizant Communication Corporation. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Commercial services
    Marketing
    Tourism
    Tourism marketing
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/63630
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    • Journal articles

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