velers who make arrangements through travel professionals but exercise some control over their itinerary. These types of tourists are looking for novelties and this can be typical of tourists who seek out "black spots" to visit. Wyllie's recreational tourist is described as a tourist who uses travel as a form or recreation and pleasure. Travel anywhere can be as source of recreation and pleasure and traveling to a "black spot" can induce the same effects.
When discussing tourism to black spots there are other factors that must be noted. These factors are introduced next. Tourists can travel to "black spots" because of motivational factors which in turn determine a tourist's travel behavior. There are physical, cultural, personal, and prestige-related motivations for travel. According to Tarlow (2002), there are two categories of motivation: sociophysical (a combination
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