HPED 3630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Spring Break, Disposable And Discretionary Income, Acculturation

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Health & Physical Education
• Course: HPED 3630
• Professor: Joe Pavelka

Document Summary

Sociology in destination management: examination of values, attitudes and behavior of human groups and social interaction, science of society, social institutions and relationships. Sociological contributions: social-psychological motives for leisure, recreation and tourism (i. e. , being with friends and family or meeting) Leisure and travel behavior (groups and human interactions: host-guest interactions, hosts residents that live in the destination, guests visitors or tourists. Income: about 50% of all spending on pleasure travel comes from the highest 20% of income earners, education, education and income leisure travel highly related. Social behaviour: one person different behaviours and impact upon others, three personas related to tourism, self as everyday life, self as host, self as traveler. Carrying capacity: used to describe an impact measure until 1980s, social and psychological construct but, over-crowding concept is recognized as a negative impact of tourism for visitor, local population, destination. Overcrowding: we know that over-crowding, tends to increase with perceived incompatible activity/behaviours.