Revista de investigación turística y hotelería

Life Style Descriptors for Travelers

Stanley I. Buchin

Life Style Descriptors for Travelers

In market research done for Holiday Inns in 1979, I found some consumer travel behavior that I didn’t understand involving two groups:
• Younger travelers with modest household incomes who traveled extensively and expensively
• Middle-aged travelers with high household incomes who did not travel extensively or expensively.