Sightseers

wdt_ID	US Travel Destination	Top Travel Destination	Value for Money	Total Stars	Sightseer
1	Maui, Hawaii				1
2	Tampa, Florida				2
3	Maine coastal towns				3
4	Los Angeles, California				4
5	Charleston, South Carolina				5
6	Black Hills/Mount Rushmore, South Dakota				6
7	St. Augustine, Florida				7
8	Myrtle Beach, South Carolina				8
9	Zion National Park, Utah				9
10	Catskills/Adirondacks, New York				10
11	Yellowstone National Park/ Beartooth Highway, Montana				11
12	Memphis, Tennessee				12
13	Grand Canyon, Arizona				13
14	Fort Lauderdale / Palm Beach / Boca Raton, Florida				14
15	Southern California				15

wdt_ID	International Travel Destination	Top Travel Destination	Value for Money	Total Stars	Sightseer
1	St. Maarten/St. Martin				1
2	Vatican City, Italy				2
3	London, England				3
4	German river cruises				4
5	Paris, France				5
6	Sydney, Australia				6
7	Aruba				7
8	Florence, Italy				8
9	Vancouver, Canada				9
10	Italy				10
11	Athens, Greece				11
12	Nassau/Paradise Island, Bahamas				12
13	Scotland				13
14	Ephesus/Troy/ancient sites, Turkey				14
15	Bermuda				15

These ratings and rankings are based on evaluations by thousands of travelers.
Best Destinations, summarizes evaluations by all visitors on the degree to which they especially like the places they recently visited. Value for the Money, measures the degree to which all visitors feel they got good value for what they paid, not that it is a cheap place to visit. (Note: Most destinations receive better scores on the Great Destination scale than on Value for the Money.)

About the Sightseers Travel Personality

Laid back, calm, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, unruffled, untroubled, informal, unceremonious, casual, and carefree. A lot of these words probably apply to Sightseers. They’ve even heard them used by friends and associates to describe them in the past. Above all, Sightseers probably have been labeled as mellow, creating a feeling among friends that they’re genial, calm in most of life’s storms (at least on the surface), cordial, affable, cheerful, pleasant, and agreeable. And they are a true-blue kind of person-someone who never plays the snob and who is loyal to friends and associates. About 17% of the population (one out of six) shares the Sightseers characteristics.

Sightseers fit between the Authentics and Journeyers. Their steady and unwavering personality means that others can depend on them, to help them out when they’ve run into difficulty or need help on a personal project. But Sightseers are a little more flexible in approaching their daily routine than a pure-Authentic who prefers a more routine daily existence. Like most people you’ve faced their share of troubles in life but you have been far better than many in being able to handle them with a sense of calm and steadiness.

An easygoing approach to life wins a lot of friends, so their social circle can be very broad and interesting. Sightseers especially develop deep and long lasting friendships. Most of us like to be around people who allow us to be as we are, and a Sightseer’s acceptance of almost anyone and everyone creates that comfortable feeling for others. Typically, their demands from life aren’t heavy. Sightseers don’t buy fancy cars, or change them every two years, live in a grand house, or brag about their accomplishments. However, golf provides lots of fun for a foursome of friends to rib each other and make it a truly social event. They consider life to be rather good just taking it as it comes on a daily basis. If you have faced a lot of difficult situations in life, these have probably made you a stronger person and also better adjusted. Sightseers recognize more of what is good, cherish it, and come away with greater contentment.

A Sightseer’s personality type can go one of two ways depending upon which path they choose. Most who are like them possess great home-related skills-wood-working, home fix-up, cooking and sewing, gardening, and related activities-to the point that neighbors and friends admire their accomplishments and ask for their help with their own feeble attempts to replicate what you do so easily. But, if a Sighteer hasn’t kept active, they also understand that there can be a downside in their daily life. An easy going approach can lead to too much TV, munching on snacks as you watch, or just sitting around and talking with others too often. The inactivity, they recognize, is beginning to show in their waistline and it makes them less energetic than you wish. However, if they’re one of the wise ones, they have that under control and have decided that they’ll get more active so that you don’t become a pretty dull person.

Like Traditionals, Sightseers prefer watching TV to reading newspapers and magazines, and will rent recent movies for their home entertainment center as soon as these are available from a local video rental store or online. Baseball is a popular sport with them, and they also tend to be an avid follower of favorite football and basketball teams. It’s great to get together with friends at home or theirs to cheer on the home teams or go to a game for a tailgating party.

A Sightseer’s mellow personality also impacts their approach to travel. Most likely, leisure travel doesn’t measure at the top of their list of priorities. they’d rather spend time around the house doing fix-up jobs, enjoying their back yard, or having barbeques and visits with friends and neighbors. When Sightseers do take a trip, they typically prefer popular places with lots of sunshine like Florida, Arizona or California. They want the assurance of good weather and the certainty that they know what they’ll experience after arrival. Sightseers like to return regularly to places they’ve visited before and have really liked. They don’t want surprises-going to a new destination and finding that it was not what they or their family expected. And Sightseers rather take the trip in their car/SUV or camper/trailer. This allows them to take along many of the things they like to have with them on a vacation trip, as compared to going by air and being limited to a couple of bags per person. Many in their group own good-sized mobile homes, and love to go to places where they can meet others with similar interests and swap stories at night and enjoy the social gatherings. Some people even plan dates in advance when they will meet with other camper/mobile home owners again and renew friendships.

If Sightseers travel internationally, the best choice for those with these traits is to select a good tour company. Handling all of the details of planning a big trip is not something Sightseers enjoy, and they take care of everything, including emergency situations while on the trip. They will meet a lot of people who have similar interests, helping to make the trip even more enjoyable. Sightseers might also want to consider a cruise in the Caribbean. Great weather, beautiful beaches, and a chance to meet a lot of people on board that they’ll probably enjoy. Cruise friendships can last for years, and some even plan upcoming cruises to be with people they met on previous voyages.

To make their next trip one that they will most likely enjoy, Sightseers look for destinations from our list that rank high for those with Traditional personalities. These choices were made by people with similar personalities who have gone to the places that Sightseers would also probably like and they have ranked them high on their list.

Because Sightseers have broad travel interests (traveling by car or by air), they will find destinations that will please them among places preferred by Sightseers and also Voyagers. It’s a rather fortunate position for them since more destinations can please their type of person.