- Title
- Climate change and modal shift: Changing the tradition of Australian domestic holidays
- Creator
- Winter, Caroline; Frew, Elspeth
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/57083
- Identifier
- vital:4698
- Abstract
- This research involved participants in focus group sessions conducted in metropolitan and regional Australia. Many comments about buses and trains related to the fact that, in addition to a lack of freedom and comfort, travel by these modes often took longer, involved inconvenient connections, and involved greater financial cost than cars and aeroplanes. Few participants considered using trains for holiday travel even though they were happy to use them on a day to day basis, and for journeys of up to two hours. The participants indicated that if the quality of buses and trains were improved they would be likely to make use of them for holiday travel. Important features were comfort, speed, cost, frequency and onboard services. The participants in this study who lived in the inner metropolitan areas discussed a number of ways in which they limit their greenhouse gas emissions on a daily basis, but they demonstrated little difference to other participants with respect to the holiday travel.
- Publisher
- Eastborne, UK University of Brighton
- Relation
- Paper presented at Travel and Tourism in the Age of Climate Change: Robust Findings, Key Uncertainties, 7th International Symposium on Tourism and Sustainability
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Domestic holidays; Trains; Aviation; Bus; Distance
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