The five major role-related behaviours for twelve traveler categories.
| Traveller categories | The five clearest role-related behaviours
(in order of relative importance) | | Tourist | Takes photos, buys souvenirs, goes to famous places, stays
briefly in one place, does not understand the local people | | Traveller | Stays briefly in one place, experiments with local food, goes
to famous places, takes photos, explores places privately | | Holidaymaker | Takes photos, goes to famous places, is alienated from the local
society, buys souvenirs, contributes to the visited economy | | Jet-setter | Lives a life of luxury, concerned with social status, seeks
physical pleasures, prefers interacting with people of his / her
own kind, goes to famous places | | Businessperson | Concerned with social status, contributes to the economy, does
not take photos, prefers interacting with people of his / her own
kind, lives a life of luxury | | Migrant | Has language problems, prefers interacting with people of
his / her own kind, does not understand the local people, does
not live a life of luxury, does not explore the local people | | Conservationist | Interested in the environment, does not buy souvenirs, does not
exploit the local people, explores places privately, takes
photos | | Explorer | Explores places privately, interested in the environment, takes
physical risks, does not buy souvenirs, keenly observes the
visited economy | | Overseas student | Experiments with local food, does not exploit the people, takes
photos, keenly observes the visited society, takes physical
risks | | International athlete | Is not alienated from his/her own society, does not exploit the
local people, does not understand the local people, explores
places privately, searches for the meaning of life | | Overseas journalist | Takes photos, keenly observes the visited society, goes to
famous places, takes physical risks, explores places privately | | Religious pilgrim | Searches for the meaning of life, does not live a life of luxury,
is not concerned with social status, does not exploit the local
people, does not buy souvenirs |
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