This study investigates a popular theory of tourist motivation–the travel career pattern–and
contrasts it against an alternative explanation–that childhood travel habits repeat throughout …

This chapter provides a critical overview of tourist motivation as one of the key concepts in
the tourism literature. As the ultimate driving force for tourist behaviour, tourist motivation has …

Tourist motivation, as a core of travel behavior, significantly influences consumer intentions
and has attracted academic attention for decades. A plethora of studies analyse sets of …

Tourism researchers and practitioners have an interest in understanding tourists' travel
patterns, and one of the most used models applied to reach this goal is the seminal Travel …

Objective: This study evaluates the role of tourist motivation in the determination of
destination and ecotourism loyalty using push and pull motivation theory and the theory of …

This study aims to evaluate the moderating role of social media influence before and after
the trip in Vietnam and Czech Republic. Primary data, gathered during time lag data surveys …

Employing the travel career pattern (TCP) by Pearce (2019, Dreaming and longing. Tourist
Behaviour, 20–40) as its guiding conceptual framework, the study explores cruise tourism …

Tourism is embedded within societal structures, and imbalances upheld through social
structures, like systemic racism, leave symbolic boundaries where certain activities …

Travel career pattern is an approach to understanding the travel motives of tourists. The
concept was originated from travel career ladder developed by Philip L. Pearce, which …

This study explores the travel motivations of Chinese and Taiwanese Gen Y tourists visiting
Thailand. The concept of travel career pattern (TCP) was applied to identify the motivation …