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Conspicuous consumption of the elite: Social and self-congruity in tourism choices

dc.contributor.authorCorreia, Antónia
dc.contributor.authorKozak, Metin
dc.contributor.authorReis Figueiredo, Helena
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-07T15:56:25Z
dc.date.available2017-04-07T15:56:25Z
dc.date.issued2016-07
dc.description.abstractThis paper relies on social and economic psychology to explore how the travel choices of Portuguese citizens, with different status levels in their daily lives, perceive and adopt different conspicuous travel patterns because of public exposure. To account for the moderated role of public exposure on conspicuous travel patterns, 36 Portuguese citizens were interviewed. Q-methods were applied to explore the varying senses of conspicuous travel choices among citizens with different levels of public exposure, both individually and relative to each other. Complementary qualitative methods were applied, in order to explore how the interviewees construct tourism conspicuous meanings that match their social or self-representations. The results suggest that social contexts moderate the ways in which individuals perceive and experience conspicuous travel. Further, the results show that public groups with higher exposure tend to prefer subtle signals of conspicuousness, in order to differentiate themselves from the mainstream.
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0047287514563337
dc.identifier.issn0047-2875
dc.identifier.otherAUT: ACO00457; HRE00388;
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/9409
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
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dc.titleConspicuous consumption of the elite: Social and self-congruity in tourism choices
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage750
oaire.citation.issue6
oaire.citation.startPage738
oaire.citation.titleJournal of Travel Research
oaire.citation.volume55
person.familyNameCorreia
person.familyNameREIS FIGUEIREDO
person.givenNameAntónia
person.givenNameHELENA
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person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-6707-8289
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