Demand & motivation for tourism travel

1. The Ability to travel
 To be able to satisfy desire their to travel , tourists must be
able to meet various conditions.
 They must be able to afford both the time & money to do so.
 Tourism requires the ability to get away from school , work
,home & social & other commitment.
 The growth of leisure time in the past century brought about
by Technological & other improvements.

2.  The impact of economic factors on demand is also
reinforced by the socio-demographic profiles of
holidaymakers .
 The factors are two interrelated economic ones, Occupation
& Income.

3.  Demand is always at a price.
 The demand for anything at a given price is the amount of it
which will be brought per unit of time at that price
Demand…?

4.  Demand for tourism measured & expressed in different ways.
 ‘Effective demand’ mostly used.
 Effective demand means the number of people who actually
participate in a tourist activity or visit a given area.
Measuring Demand in Tourism

5. Those who could participate but do not active in tourist
activity.
Either lack of knowledge.
Lack of facilities.
Who can not participate in tourist activity lack of social &
economic improvement.
Deferred Demand

6.  The number of tourists leaving or visiting a country or region.
 The number of passengers using a certain mode of transport.
 The number of bed nights spent in a particular type of
accommodation .
 The number of tourists using a given recreational facilities or
taking part in a specific activity such as hiking , skating ,scuba
diving & skiing and so on.
Measuring Effective Demand in Tourism

7.  Demand for tourism also expressed in terms of travel
propensity.
 Schmidhauser differentiates two types of travel propensity-
Net Travel Propensity & Gross Travel Propensity.
Travel Propensity

8. Net Travel Propensity
Net Travel Propensity refers to the
proportion of total population or a
particular group in the population
who have made at least one trip
away from in the period in usually a
year.
Net travel propensity=p/P*100
 Where,
 p=the number of
persons in a country
or in a particular
group who have
made at least one
trip away from home
in the given period.
 P=total population
of the country or
region

9. Gross Travel Propensity
 Gross Travel Propensity refers to the
total number of trips taken in
relation to the total population
studied.
 Gross Travel Propensity=Tp/p*100
 Where
Tp=total number of trips
undertaken by the total
population in question.
P=total population of the
country or region