As regards social contact being a motivation for travelling to the destination, 72.6% of tourists agreed. On this, most of the respondents representing, 90.8% acknowledged that the desire to home-stay with a local family was a motive for their visit to the province. In addition, some 82.3% visited because of the desire make friends with people who were exciting and unexpected. Nonetheless, less than half (44.9%) of them were neutral about travelling to the north to interact with other tourists.