5

Behaviour and experienceswhile travelling

What do people do, what do they experience when they travel? How are their numerous wishes and expectations reflected in their behaviour? What are the most conspicuous characteristics? Do they follow a pattern?

The favourite holiday activities

A look at the list of holiday activities of German tourists shows how wide the range of tourist activities is. Active recreation is perhaps overvalued because it is more prestigious but the list contains no surprises. It shows all the usual things that are done on holiday. What transpires is both the clichéd pattern of the questions and probably also the holiday-makers’ behaviour. To this extent holiday activities look quite harmless, but the point is that what ...

Get Holiday Makers now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.