Specificity of Academic Youth’s Behaviours in the Market for Tourist Services (Based on Own Research Findings) Cover Image

Specyfika zachowań młodzieży akademickiej na rynku usług turystycznych (na podstawie wyników badań własnych)
Specificity of Academic Youth’s Behaviours in the Market for Tourist Services (Based on Own Research Findings)

Author(s): Sebastian Dudziak, Urszula Kęprowska
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Financial Markets, Marketing / Advertising, Tourism
Published by: Instytut Badań Rynku, Konsumpcji i Koniunktur
Keywords: consumers’ behaviours; global consumption; market for tourist services;

Summary/Abstract: At times when marketing strategies of enterprises operating in various sectors of the economy are directed to the customer, of an extremely important role is knowledge of consumers’ purchasing preferences and behaviours. The wide interest in the customer is observed, inter alia, in the tourist branch which, owing to profiling offers based on consumers’ behavioural data, and more efficiently gets one’s way to expectations of various groups of purchasers. An aim of the research article is an attempt to bring closer the selected aspects of consumer behaviour in the market for tourist services of an extremely specific group of customers, i.e. the academic youth. In the theoretical part of the study, the authors presented the specificity of consumer behaviours with a particular consideration of consumption globalisation as well as the selected traits characterising the social group in question. In the empirical part, they presented findings of the surveys carried out by them by the representative method on the sample of 194 students of the University of Gdańsk and the Koszalin University of Technology.

  • Issue Year: 356/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 47-58
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish