Leisure – Meaning and Impact on Leisure Travel Behavior

The concept of leisure has been discussed in numerous forums from sociology to psychology and has various connotations. The current study looks at leisure in the specific context of travel as a manifest part of leisure behavior. Based on extant literature the determinants of leisure travel are identified along with summarizing some of the consumer behavior models explaining leisure travel. A schematic model of how these determinants, including- personality, motivation, attitude and situational and environmental factors, lead to leisure travel behavior has been proposed