Summary information

Study title

Tourism to Distant Places

Creator

MARPLAN, Offenbach

Study number / PID

ZA1263, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.1263 (DOI)

Data access

Information not available

Series

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Abstract

Attitude to vacation travel overseas. Topics: sequence of distant travel destinations visited in the last 5 years; time of last distant travel; trip duration; person accompanying; individual or group travel; group size; decision-maker in establishing the last destination; sources of information about last distant travel; trip form; place of booking; preferred accomodation and means of transport used at place of vacation; judgement on counseling by travel agency; duration of saving for the trip; detailed recording of the decision criteria for the choice of distant travel destinations and the significance of these criteria in different vacation areas (scale); concerns that could negatively influence the choice of a destination (scale); preferred type of vacation; assessment of probability of further vacation travel far from home; preferred form of booking for future distant travel; self-assessment of extent to which informed about individual distant vacation countries; flight duration and costs as obstacle to the choice of certain distant travel destinations; estimate of flight time and costs for selected distant travel destinations; knowledge about cities and attractions in Australia; countries one would visit in connection with an Australia vacation; possible length of stay and preferred time of year for an Australia vacation; degree of familiarity of airlines; preferred airline for a trip to Australia; interest in a trip to Australia; frequency of reading selected newspapers and magazines. Demography: age; sex; marital status; school education; employment; income; household size; characteristics of head of household. Also encoded were: district code and identification of interviewer.

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

11/1980 - 12/1980

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1980

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

Related publications

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