Cultural Perspective of Tourism

Each of your answers must be a minimum of 700 words and maximum of 1000 words. Answers need to be detailed and in paragraph form, with a clear structure. You are welcome to find additional information on the topic and apply them to your answers, but if yo do so, use the APA convention for citing sources, to avoid plagiarism.

1. Why and how do tourists develop and/or resort to stereotypes while traveling away from their home environment? Why are stereotypes often inaccurate? Why are stereotypes helpful? Why are stereotypes dangerous? How can we modify and/or eliminate stereotypes? Your answer must be a minimum of 700 words and maximum of 1000 words.

2. If you were the President of the San Diego Tourism Authority, how would you go about evaluating satisfaction levels of tourists visiting the region? Which technique of satisfaction measurement would be the most adequate? Describe this technique? Why should international tourist complaints not always be used in assessing their vacation satisfaction? Your answer must be a minimum of 700 words and maximum of 1000 words.

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Social psychologists refer to a stereotype as an overgeneralized belief regarding a group of people. Individuals develop certain expectations regarding a person’s personality, abilities, or preferences, which might be erroneous. Stereotypes are recognized as a cognitive component, which in most cases, they arise through unconscious awareness. An example of a stereotype is evident when a tourist visits a destination like Africa, where he expects to find very poor Africans. This results in racial prejudice, which has adverse effects on the group in focus…

 

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