Planning the summer vacation - An adaptable process

Alain Decrop; Dirk Snelders

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2004.03.004

Planning the summer vacation - An adaptable process

Alain Decrop, Dirk Snelders

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Abstract

This paper presents a contextualized study of vacation planning starting from a naturalistic perspective. Series of indepth interviews have been conducted during the period of a year on 25 Belgian households in order to follow their decision-making process for summer vacation. Data were analyzed and interpreted following the grounded theory approach. Findings show that vacation planning is an ongoing process, which entails a lot of adaptability and opportunism. Fantasy and emotions also play an important role in shaping vacation and destination choices. This departs from existing decision-making models that propose a (bounded) rational, problem-solving vacationer. © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1008-1030
Number of pages	23
Journal	Annals of Tourism Research
Volume	31
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2004.03.004
Publication status	Published - Oct 2004

Keywords

Decision-making
Destination choice
Grounded theory
Tourist behavior
Vacation planning

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