1. WHY DO PEOPLE TRAVEL? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

2. FOUR TYPES OF TOURISTS
1. ORGANISED MASS TOURIST

3. ORGANISED MASS TOURIST
Familiar destination
Familiar foods
Previous experiences
Packaged trips

4. 2. Individual or Small Group Mass Tourists
More of a trip
To suit themselves
Business,
Educational
purposes

5. 3. Lone Travellers and Explorers
Tourist arrange his or her own trip
Seeking new experience
Health, religious, business

6. 4. Drifters Plan trips alone Shun other tourist groups
Seeks immersion in host culture

8. PLOG’S PSYCHOGRAPHIC PROFILE
Patterns of tourism based on personal characteristics
Psychocentric – non-adventurous, familiar destinations
Allocentric – naturally adventurous
Between psychocentric and allocentric are intermediate categories

9. PLOG’S PSYCHOGRAPHIC PROFILE