More than just vacation : exploring the relevance of interest, interests, and enjoyment for tourist experiences
This study sought to explore the relationship between interest, interests, and enjoyment in a tourist experience in order to learn more about how interest for something in a destination can be triggered and developed. A total of 100 tourists (57.3% women) who visited Tromsø between November 2008 and...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/2421 2024-06-02T08:15:20+00:00 More than just vacation : exploring the relevance of interest, interests, and enjoyment for tourist experiences Thorsteinsen, Kjærsti 2009-05-04 1700580 bytes application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10037/2421 eng eng Universitetet i Tromsø University of Tromsø https://hdl.handle.net/10037/2421 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_2171 openAccess Copyright 2009 The Author(s) VDP::Social science: 200::Psychology: 260::Other psychology disciplines: 279 interest enjoyment interest development tourist experiences motivation PSY-3900 Master thesis Mastergradsoppgave 2009 ftunivtroemsoe 2024-05-07T08:42:34Z This study sought to explore the relationship between interest, interests, and enjoyment in a tourist experience in order to learn more about how interest for something in a destination can be triggered and developed. A total of 100 tourists (57.3% women) who visited Tromsø between November 2008 and March 2009 participated in a questionnaire study. The questionnaire was three-folded with measures collected before (T1), during (T2), and after (T3) the excursion. The excursions in this study were able to reinforce interest for tourists with prior personal interests and arouse situational interest among tourists without a pre-existing interest. However, the situational interest was weaker than personal interest in terms of evoking a desire to do similar things again. Leisure Motivations influenced both Interest and Enjoyment in the end of the excursion, though this was more important for Interest. Further study of the role of enjoyment in sustaining of the new interest is warranted. The results of the study are discussed in light of interest development theories and implications for the tourism industry. Master Thesis Tromsø University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Tromsø |
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This study sought to explore the relationship between interest, interests, and enjoyment in a tourist experience in order to learn more about how interest for something in a destination can be triggered and developed. A total of 100 tourists (57.3% women) who visited Tromsø between November 2008 and March 2009 participated in a questionnaire study. The questionnaire was three-folded with measures collected before (T1), during (T2), and after (T3) the excursion. The excursions in this study were able to reinforce interest for tourists with prior personal interests and arouse situational interest among tourists without a pre-existing interest. However, the situational interest was weaker than personal interest in terms of evoking a desire to do similar things again. Leisure Motivations influenced both Interest and Enjoyment in the end of the excursion, though this was more important for Interest. Further study of the role of enjoyment in sustaining of the new interest is warranted. The results of the study are discussed in light of interest development theories and implications for the tourism industry. |
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More than just vacation : exploring the relevance of interest, interests, and enjoyment for tourist experiences |
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