Motivation and Goals
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Tourism Social Science Series
Volume
27
First Page
97
Last Page
113
Publisher
Emerald
School
School of Arts and Humanities
Abstract
Goals play a critical role in everyday life and shape life and lifestyles. This chapter reviews and discusses the main approaches to the study of goals, addressing main theoretical endeavours that have emerged from psychological research, and emphasising the contributions from cognitive psychology to the topic. It also discusses literature on goals and motivation as found in tourism studies, highlighting the theoretical underpinnings used in this field. The discussion concludes with the need to update, in tourism studies, knowledge from cognitive psychology and propose how a better understanding of the cognitive foundations of goal-oriented behaviour can contribute to change tourism practice.
DOI
10.1108/S1571-504320240000027009
Access Rights
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Comments
Campos, A.C. and Scott, N. (2024), "Motivation and Goals", Cognitive Psychology and Tourism (Tourism Social Science Series, Vol. 27), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 97-113. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-504320240000027009