Exam 5: The Sustainable Traveler

Most businesses have total control over the travelers' experiences.

People that travel closer to home and invest locally in their communities with money, time, and personal energy

Which segmentation process groups people by the location of their intended holiday?

Data collected to address specific problems, or to investigate specific tourism trends

Market segmentation groups customers based on which of the following?

Splits consumers into groups according to their observed behaviors

Groups of two or more people who answer interview questions simultaneously

A social and economic movement that reflects a marketplace of goods and services that is immersed in meaningful person values of self as well as the social and natural world

Locavists generally travel closer to home.

Quality assurance in sustainable tourism involves which of the following?

Psychographic segmentation divides consumers into categories such as age, income, race, family size, and socio-economic status.

Sustainable consumption has been used to determine a variety of attributes that segment sustainable tourists by demographics.

Which of the following is mostly to be a slow tourist?

When interviewees are repeating information uncovered in previous interviews and when no new knowledge is being acquired

The use of goods and related products which bring a better quality of life to those who produce them, while minimizing the use of natural resources, toxic materials, waste, and pollutants over the product life cycle, so as not to jeopardize the needs of future generations

LOHAS consumers appear in all demographic levels, including age and income brackets.

The activity of dividing a broad consumer base, normally consisting of existing and potential customers, into sub-groups of consumers (known as segments) based on some type of shared characteristics

Neolocalism has been shown to encourage local sourcing and influence environmentally friendly production methods and consumption patterns.

The term slow tourism originated from a slow walking group in Asia.

Which of the following social movements reflects a marketplace of goods and services that are immersed in meaningful personal values related to oneself