Foundations for Understanding
Tourism Motivations, continued
The Psychocentric- Allocentric Model; Plog’s Model
Use of personality characteristics to understand tourist travel
patterns
Continuum from allocentrics to psychocentrics
Allocentrics- Innovators who seek out new locations and
activities
Psychocentrics- Tradition-bound travelers who prefer
traditionally popular locations and experiencing commonplace
activities; desire predictability in their travels
Most travelers are somewhere in between innovators and
traditionalists