Table 3

Travel characteristics as criterion

Travel characteristicsAuthors
Independent tourists who organise their own multi-destination travel with flexible itineraryLoker-Murphy and Pearce (1995), Ooi and Laing (2010); Paris (2010), Riley (1988); Uriely et al. (2002) 
With a low degree of planning and no fixed schedulesNash et al. (2006), Pearce (1990), cited by Pearce and Foster (2007), Riley (1988) 
Travel alone or in small groupsHampton (1998), Hannam and Diekmann (2010); Riley (1988); Sørensen (2003) 
With a preference for longer trips, traveling as long as possibleNash et al. (2006), Paris (2010); Pearce (1990), cited by Richards and Wilson (2004), Pearce et al. (2009) 
Travel with a backpackChen et al. (2014), Zhang et al. (2018) 
Travel for leisureAdam (2015) 
Source: Author’s construction

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