Tourism motivation and experience

Table of Contents

Tourism motivation and experience

Introduction

Literature Review

Method of Study

Case Study

Findings

Discussion and Conclusion

References:

Introduction

Tourism is a traveling event for people who have deep interest in visiting new places, enjoying every moment of fun in their life, experiencing different adventures and expeditions. People have different motives for the tour. Some people go for tour for business purposes, some for making them relaxed and others in exploring places and gaining practical knowledge about the historic, cultural and contemporary state of the places. Tourists are the people who visit and stay in different countries for not more than one year for different purposes.

Cambridge is typically known by the name as the home of the Cambridge University and is situated at the heart of Silicon Valley. Cambridge is a place most appreciated by tourists because among the top five universities, University of Cambridge is one of them. People visit this place to enjoy and experience different historic and cultural buildings like King’s College Chapel and Choir, Peckover House and Garden, Houghton Mill, and many more interesting places. Some of these places give a beautiful landscape scenario which attracts more tourists to visit Cambridge. Tourist mostly enjoys the nightlife wherein they enjoy going to pubs, bars, and clubs. Also some tourist likes to experience punting and boating (Cees,2000).

The present theoretical study focuses on the characteristics of Cambridge tourism and tourist motivation and experience in Cambridge. Tourist visiting Cambridge are more likely to attract with the day and nightlife of the people. The morning and evening landscapes are also appreciated by the tourists. Tourists who come for spending holidays prefer to stay in the very famous four star hotel namely Felix Hotel. This study mainly focuses on interviewing different tourists about their experience and travel to different places. The interview was conducted from approximately 500-600 tourists. This interview emphasis was on some basic aspects of tourism like they were meant to answer some questions about what they like most about Cambridge, the famous places which they prefer to visit, famous churches, special cuisines, activities and events they like to participate and the places they like to visit most (Roger,2007). It was also questioned from the tourists about the duration of the stay of the tourists depending upon the number of days like one month, fifteen days, or a week only along with the purpose of their stay in the Cambridge City. After conducting the survey and interviewing many people, it was analyzed that approximately 30 % of tourists were enjoying seeing the landscapes and the night life of music and theatre events in the city, 26 % tourists came to visit the religious places and the Buddhist Center in the city, 18 % tourists liked the architecture and the heritage centers in the city, 15 % enjoyed the sporting events that occur throughout the year with great enthusiasm, and 11 % people visited the Cambridge city only for business and education purposes. Of the tourists surveyed and interviewed for the duration of their stay in the city, 51 % tourists were staying in the city for approximately for one month or more, 25 % tourists were staying for a period of 15 to 30 days, 16 % tourists were staying for a period of less than fifteen days or one week, and remaining 8% tourists were visiting the Cambridge city for the first time only for business purposes.

Literature Review

People from various places like to visit new places all around the world. Tourism is such a good option for them to explore places with enjoyable places and enthusiastic events occurring in that area which motivates people to explore some more places of their interest. Most of the tourist places are now well developed according to the needs of people coming from far off places. The tourist places have all necessary things at the place like the hotels to reside, good and healthy food to eat, and even continental food is also available at most places (Roger,2007).

Cambridge is a place where tourism is well appreciated by the tourists. Cambridge is also known as the home of Cambridge University which is situated at the heart of high technology center called as Silicon Valley. Its economy gets most of the strength by the use of the technology and tourist visits. Most of the tourists visit Cambridge to have a look to the university and the other things like the culture, literary festivals, events like theatre, music and movie events, churches, etc. These things form the beautiful view of landscapes in Cambridge. Apart from the churches, a Buddhist Centre and an Indian Bharat Bhawan is also present which are in the list of tourists to visit there (Roger,2007).

The present study completely focuses on the tourist motivation and their experience and also describes the characteristics of the Cambridge relating to the places to visit, transport, landscapes, events, festivals, and other fun places. Most of the scholars have tried to explore various places and descriptions about the tourist experiences and their motivation level after exploring places in Cambridge (Philip, 2004).

George Hughes (2011) has studied about the tourism and the geographical imagination. He illustrated that there are various strategies to visit the places like tourism, in which people travel long distances and explores various places to visit. As the tourism industries get a booming height, the marketing strategies also increases to present the various things in a creative manner. There comes a boom in all industries linked to that place like the theatres, music and art galleries, sports, cultural events, folk events, general shopping centers, etc. The paintings, architecture, heritage places also get on to the list of tourists to visit. He concluded that the tourism is the thing which motivates the person to travel more and this can help in making the tourist maps, which becomes easy for another person to locate the places.

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