Sins of the Fathers: The Holocaust and the Leisure Travel Decision Among American Jews

Author: Podoshen, Jeffrey Steven

Source: Tourism Analysis, Volume 11, Number 5, 2006 , pp. 331-336(6)

Publisher: Cognizant Communication Corporation

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Abstract:

Understanding the ethnicity and how it affects the tourism decision process is important for a better understanding of key demographic segments of travelers. This research explores the effects of past ethnic conflict on the tourism decision process for leisure travel. Specifically, this study looks at the Holocaust and the propensity for Americans of Jewish descent to choose Germany as a leisure destination. Evidence appeared to indicate that those travelers who had family members involved in the Holocaust were less likely to travel to Germany on leisure than those who did not, but that American Jews in general were no less likely to travel to Germany on leisure than non-Jews.

Keywords: WAR AND TOURISM; GERMAN TOURISM; EQUITY THEORY; JEWISH

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2006-12-01

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The aim of Tourism Analysis is to promote a forum for practitioners and academicians in the fields of Leisure, Recreation, Tourism, and Hospitality (LRTH). As a interdisciplinary journal, it is an appropriate outlet for articles, research notes, and computer software packages designed to be of interest, concern, and of applied value to its audience of professionals, scholars, and students of LRTH programs the world over.