Thursday, July 15, 2010

WHY DO PEOPLE TRAVEL?


People travel for different purpose and reasons. There are different factors that create desire in people to travel and be become tourist. Different factors that motivate people to travel from place to place are as follows:
1. physical motive (motivators):- phycial motive are related to physical relaxation/refreshment of a body and mind, health purposes, sports and pleasure. Thease groups of motivators are taken as to reduce tensions.
2. Interpersonal motives:- Interpersonal motives refere to the desire to visit and meet relatives, frends, and new people to seek new experiences. This is simply to escape from the routine of everyday life.
3. Status and prestige motive:- status & presting refers to the people's ability to spend more for the families by traveling to different place & want to share there experiences with their relatives about the visit, which brings a sort of prestige in front of the relatives and surroundings. It is also concerned with the desire for recogmition & attention from other in order to boost the personal ego.
4. Culture:- people travel to different places, which are rich in culture & heritage, customs and traditions, art & music, historical buildings, monuments, etc. That motivates people to travel thease places in search of knowledge & desire to know more about their culture..
In addition, various other specifice reasons to travel are pleasure holidays, sports, shoping, business, official governmental visits pilgrimage & a special interest purpose, etc.

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