- Title
- The relationship between VFR travel and quality of life
- Creator
- Backer, Elisa
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Conference proceedings
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/180832
- Identifier
- vital:15803
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780987050793
- Abstract
- The Family Life Cycle (FLC) model is frequently used for understanding travel patterns and consumer behaviour. The model outlines the stages many people are considered to transition through from singles, to couples, to having children, retiring and then being a solitary survivor. The aim of this research was to consider the relationship between life cycle stages and travel engagement in Australia. In particular, this research aimed to determine whether there were any differences in travel behaviour between Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) travellers and nonVFRs across the FLC stages. Based on a sample size of 102,029 domestic visitors, an analysis revealed that VFRs and non-VFRs were significantly different in their FLC composition ( =6851.60, df=20, p<.05). Z tests of column proportions revealed differences across a number of the groups, with the strongest level of association identified for the older non-working single FLC stage (
- Publisher
- Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education
- Relation
- CAUTHE 2016 : The changing landscape: The Impact of emerging markets and destinations, Melbourne p. 69-87
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education
- Subject
- VFR travel, visiting friends and relatives; Family tourism; Family life cycle model; FLC
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