Tourism Undergraduates' As Creative Tourists' Experiences and Interests

Vysokoškolskí študenti v odbore Turizmus - zážitky a záujmy tvorivých turistov

Zuzana Sándorová, Norbert Beták

In: Geografické informácie (Geographical Information), Ročník (Volume) 24, Číslo (Issue) 2, 2020, p. 301-314, ISSN 1337-9453

DOI: 10.17846/GI.2020.24.2.301-314

Abstract

Over the last decades, the considerable changes in tourists’ expectations have affected the tourism sector to a great extent. The focus firstly from mass tourism meeting only the visitors’ basic needs and later from tangible heritage-based, sightseeing cultural tourism has shifted towards creative tourism satisfying tourists’ desires to be actively involved in the co-creation of the tourist product, i.e. in meaningful, unique and authentic experiences. To find out whether this trend will dominate in the future, the present paper investigated tourism undergraduates’ as creative tourists’ experiences and interests in creative activities. The findings of the questionnaire survey revealed that the majority of the examined young people in Slovakia has already been involved in creative activities during the holiday and their main travel motives are entertainment and experimentation.

Keywords: creative tourism, creative tourists, tourism undergraduates, experiences, interests

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