The internal structure of destination visitation model and implications for image management
Date
2013Abstract
In the present research, Stanley Plog’s (1967) Psychocentrism – Allocentrism Visitation Model
is reimagined. The researcher decomposes Plog’s original model and identifies five smaller bell shaped
curves constituting five tourist personas within the normal distribution of tourist flow that depicts Plog’s
model. The study also finds that, while allocentric tourists largely prefer nascent destinations, destinations
that are close to the end of their life cycles become attractive to them once again.