A Systematic Comparison of Travel-Related Roles
用100名学生样本比较了15种旅行相关角色，通过模糊集理论和多维尺度分析发现角色间存在清晰差异，有助于理解旅游社会科学文献中的视角。
Academic and professional studies of tourists and tourism both need a sound emic or experiential definition of the tourist role. In this study, a comparison of a number of travel-related roles was conducted using a 100-person student sample, and the data were analyzed with fuzzy set theory and multidimensional scaling analysis. The findings indicated that there were clear and highly interpretible differences among 15 travel-related roles. It was also demonstrated that such an approach to defining the tourist role was useful for understanding previous perspectives in the social science literature on tourism.