Motivational Influences Of Finnish Adventure Travellers
Krum, Mika (2016)
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016110315713
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016110315713
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This paper was written to look into the motivational influences of Finnish adventure travellers. Aim was to study what gave the tourists the idea to go adventuring in the first place and what makes them continue doing so. The study was done as a qualitative research with semi-structured interviews. The aim of the interviews was to gain insight from the travellers and mirror the views against the theories of Pearce, Plog and Cohen in order to see if Finnish adventure traveller fits to the typologies established by these researchers. In the thesis are comparisons made to the research on imaginery of adventure travellers by Laing and Crouch to see if Finnish adventure travellers’ imaginery is similar to the ones Laing and Crouch made based on their research. Participants for the study were searched from online forums, blogs and through personal connections. Interviews themselves were conducted face to face or through online video con-ference tools. The report was written in a narrative form. Conclusions found during the research confirm that Finnish adventure travellers fit the typologies by the before mentioned researchers. The main driving force to go adventuring is escapism, which is seen as the most important reason for travel-ling today. The connection to the imaginery research is not very clear even though some similarities can be seen. This may be due to the small number of participants in the study.