Journal of Tourism & Hospitality
Open Access

Abstract

The Effect of Culture on Holiday Recovery Experiences

Cigdem Unurlu

The aim of this research is to identify the cultural attributes of the tourists by utilizing the Hofstede’ culture scale and to reveal which cultural attributes more or less make use of holiday recovery experiences, and to eventually provide some recommendations and new insights for the sector, pragmatics and academics. According to the result of the researches conducted for these purposes, uncertainty avoidance affects relaxation and control, community affects control, power distance affects detachment. However, it was found that femininity or masculinity had no effect on holiday recovery experiences and tourist did not have mastery attitue.