<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>Maggi, Rico</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Sarman, Igor</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2016-08-23</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">The contemporary tourism industry is often forced to face events that represent a threat to individuals’ safety. Life- threatening events pose a challenge to travelers’ intentions to plan a leisure trip and influence in a substantive manner  human decisions. Individual sensitivity towards potential hazards show a great deal of variation among consumers and  several tourism scholars have spent the last years investigating the sources of heterogeneity in hazard-induced travel  decisions. The present PhD dissertation collects three research articles dealing with tourist risk perception, hazard-induced  travel behaviour and the role of individual traits in decision-making influenced by potential hazards. The specific aim of the  study is to investigate the relationship between travel attitudes and hazard-induced risk perception, and between risk  perception and travel choices. Furthermore, the work intends to assess the differences between distinct life-threatening  hazards and the way in which these determine travel decisions. For the purpose of empirical analysis, a structured survey  was administered to a sample of university students. Part of the questionnaire was dedicated to a stated preference  experiment in which individuals had to choose between hypothetical alternatives of travels characterized by hazards. In this  thesis, advanced econometric techniques – namely, Integrated Choice and Latent Variable modelling – are implemented in  order to allow unobservable individual traits to be tested as significant determinants of travellers’ decisions. The main  results highlight that travel attitudes bear a significant role in shaping risk perception only for certain types of hazards. The  analysis of stated preferences data show that an increasing level of risk perception negatively influences the likelihood to  travel to dangerous destinations, but important and significant differences are present in the sample of respondents.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1318778</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/318778</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://susi.usi.ch/documents/318778/files/2016ECO010.pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/urn/urn:nbn:ch:rero-006-116922</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/ark/12658/srd1318778</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>License undefined</dc:rights>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">Physical risk in tourism</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns2="xml" ns2:lang="en">Hazards</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns3="xml" ns3:lang="en">Risk perception</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns4="xml" ns4:lang="en">Travel attitudes</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns5="xml" ns5:lang="en">Latent variables</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns6="xml" ns6:lang="en">Stated preferences</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns7="xml" ns7:lang="en">Discrete choice modelling</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns8="xml" ns8:lang="en">Understanding the impact of risk perception in leisure tourism-related decisions and the role of attitudes and preferences</dc:title>
  <dc:type>http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>