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Visiting friends and relatives (VFR tourism / VFR travel) is a type of tourism that encompasses a broad category of individuals travelling to a destination primarily for the purposes of meeting friends and relatives. The flow of travel is usually outbound from major urban centers and inbound to more rural settlements, although this is not always the case.
One definition of VFR travel is "a form of travel involving a visit whereby either (or both) the purpose of the trip or the type of accommodation involves visiting friends and / or relatives."[1] This has subsequently been developed into definitional model for VFR to describe it visually.[2]
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VFR expenditures tend to be quite broad, spread widely throughout the community rather than confined to the narrow tourism sector (McKercher, 1995).[3] In some expenditure categories, VFR travellers have been shown to outspend non-VFR travellers (Seaton & Palmer, 1997;[4] Morrison, Verginis et al., 2000).[5]
Common time periods of VFR travel include festive seasons or during school holidays. VFR traffic is primarily driven by diasporic populations settling abroad, usually in more economically prosperous or urban areas.
Flight routes primarily driven by VFR traffic
[edit]Asia
[edit]Europe
[edit]North America
[edit]- New York to Rzeszow
- Providence to Praia
References
[edit]- ↑ Backer, E. (2007). "VFR Travel - an examination of the expenditures of VFR travellers and their hosts." Current Issues in Tourism, 10 (4), p.369
- ↑ Backer, E. (2009). "Opportunities for Commercial accommodation in VFR travel." International Journal of Travel Research
- ↑ McKercher, B. (1995). An examination of host involvement in VFR travel. Proceedings from the National Tourism and Hospitality Conference 1995. Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education, 246-255.
- ↑ Seaton, A. & Palmer, C. (1997). Understanding VFR Tourism behaviour: the first five years of the United Kingdom tourism survey. Tourism Management, 18(6), 345-355.
- ↑ Morrison, A., Verginis, C., & O’Leary, J. (2000). Reaching the unwanted and unreachable: An analysis of the outbound, long haul German and British Visiting Friends and Relatives Market. Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, 2(3), 214-231.
