Tourist Behavior On Vacation

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“A consumer as an individual who, through a process of decision-making, obtains goods and services for personal consumption” (Page &Connell, 2014, p.54). In tourism, valuable experience of destination environment could also be acknowledged where tourist turn into a consumer of place or culture. Besides that, he also might be a byer of local products in a certain destination. So, this report represents the tourist’s behavior on vacation. In addition, the questionnaire below helped me to analyze my partner 's holiday desires by taking in consideration her age, nationality, marital status and occupancy (appendix 3). Also, that questionnaire allows to analyze tourist’s type according to Plog’s, Yiannakis and Gibson’s classifications of leisure …show more content…

The country of multi-ethnic population, with wild jungles of Amazon, strong economic growth, rich and distinctive culture. The advised city would be Brotas city in a state of Sao Paulo. It is a Brazilian adventure capital, which well known for a white-water rafting, canyoning, high-rope circuits and climbing. Therefore, it will be interesting location for my colleague as she mentioned in her questionnaire that she likes adventure sports and taking risks (appendix 3 line 28 and 34). Furthermore, my interviewee likes to be around the people most of the time and as the destination is closed to the Sao Paolo city, which is one of the largest megacities in the world (Lohmann & Dredge, 2012).
Moreover, tourist may enjoy beautiful waterfalls and natural pools. Adventure tourism enhances by two reasons. Firstly, the Jacare-Pepira River attracts people who are interested in kayaking. Secondly, its location very close to Sao Paulo city. According to question 2, my colleague likes to go out and takes pleasure in parties. As a result, Sao Paulo city, which is considered as one of the biggest and metropolitan cities, might be a good reason to experience a night life (Lohmann & Dredge, …show more content…

One of the biggest strength of Brazil it is that it has a solid multicultural combination of the nation 's different ethnicities, which is perfectly fits the needs of my colleague (appendix 3, line 19 and 21) (Lohmann & Dredge, 2012). Another one, as by Euromonitor Industry overview “World-famous and diverse landmarks, such as Christ the Redeemer, Carnival, the city of Ouro Preto, the Amazon River, and the Iguaçu Falls”, which again fulfills the expectations of my traveler (Travel in Brazil, 2016). However, the destination also has its weakness. The main one is that Brazil as a Portuguese speaking nation has a small percentage of speaking English language. As a result, according to my interviewee she speaks only English language as one of the main languages in her home country, Pakistan (Pakistan country profile, 2016). As regards of opportunities, Brazil is inexpensive for international tourists due to local currency depreciation, which gives to my partner a high purchasing power. Concerning the threats, it has political instability which can cause a big issue for the whole tourism industry and tourists including my colleague as well (appendix 5) (Travel in Brazil,

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