TY - JOUR
T1 - Who are they? Visitors to Louisiana’s River Road plantations
AU - Bright, Candace Forbes
AU - Carter, Perry
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2016/11/2
Y1 - 2016/11/2
N2 - This article examines the responses of 448 tourists to an exit survey at four Louisiana River Road tourist plantations. We investigate and discuss the relationships between the demographics of the tourists and their interests as they relate to tourist plantations. Cluster analysis of the visitors’ interests indicates that visitors typically fall into one of four interest clusters: “Everything is great!”; “Culture and the Enslaved”; Culture without the Enslaved”; or “Everything is just Okay”. Several plantation managerial and theoretical implications are discussed, as well as suggestions for future research directions.
AB - This article examines the responses of 448 tourists to an exit survey at four Louisiana River Road tourist plantations. We investigate and discuss the relationships between the demographics of the tourists and their interests as they relate to tourist plantations. Cluster analysis of the visitors’ interests indicates that visitors typically fall into one of four interest clusters: “Everything is great!”; “Culture and the Enslaved”; Culture without the Enslaved”; or “Everything is just Okay”. Several plantation managerial and theoretical implications are discussed, as well as suggestions for future research directions.
KW - River Road plantation
KW - Tourism
KW - Tourist demographics
KW - Tourist interests
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U2 - 10.1080/1743873X.2015.1100627
DO - 10.1080/1743873X.2015.1100627
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84981289259
VL - 11
SP - 262
EP - 274
JO - Journal of Heritage Tourism
JF - Journal of Heritage Tourism
SN - 1743-873X
IS - 3
ER -