GEG 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Business Travel, Visual Flight Rules, Tourism Geography
10 Oct 2016
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Push factors: a number of negative factors that push one away from their origin and move them to the destinations. Ex: our origin would be ottawa because we now live in ottawa. A push factor would be something that"s pushing us away to go somewhere else. Pull factors: positive factors of a destination. Ex: florida is warm and it will pull us from the cold climate of ottawa. Seeking motives: refers to the fact that individuals seek personal (within themselves) and interpersonal (interactions with other people) rewards by traveling to a different place (pull factors). Escaping motives: they wish to escape personal and interpersonal context of their environment within their origin (push factors). Consider a holiday that you have taken recently and attempt to classify your motivations for the holiday under the headings of push and pull . Push factors for tourism from israel would be the on and off war, even though it did not affect my lifestyle there.
