Traditionals

wdt_ID	US Travel Destination	Top Travel Destination	Value for Money	Total Stars	Traditional
1	Orlando, Florida				1
2	Branson, Missouri				2
3	Las Vegas, Nevada				3
4	Honolulu, Hawaii				4
5	Myrtle Beach, South Carolina				5
6	Mall of America, Minnesota				6
7	Fort Lauderdale / Palm Beach / Boca Raton, Florida				7
8	Alaska Inside Passage (Ketchikan, Sitka, other towns), AK				8
9	Maine outlet shopping				9
10	Laughlin, Nevada				10
11	Miami, Florida				11
12	Los Angeles, California				12
13	Atlantic City, New Jersey				13
14	Illinois Mississippi River towns/cruising casinos				14
15	Maui, Hawaii				15

wdt_ID	International Travel Destination	Top Travel Destination	Value for Money	Total Stars	Traditional
1	Aruba				1
2	Vancouver, Canada				2
3	Jerusalem, Israel				3
4	Jamaica				4
5	Cancun, Mexico				5
6	Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas				6
7	London, England				7
8	Toronto, Canada				8
9	Cayman Islands				9
10	Barbados				10
11	Swiss countryside/villages, Switzerland				11
12	St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands				12
13	Turkey				13
14	St. Maarten/St. Martin				14
15	Paris, France				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 Traditionals Travel Personality

If you examine the description of Venturers, you will find a personality quite the opposite of Traditionals. Traditionals prefer a life that is more structured, stable and predictable. They would rather follow some set patterns or routines in your life so that they’re more likely to know what will happen during each day and, therefore, can plan or prepare for it much better.

The Traditional’s actions are more predictable and dependable than is true of many people. Others know they can rely on Traditionals to do what they say because they follow through on their commitments. And, more than any other group, what others see on the surface reflects a their true personality. Traditionals don’t play games in dealing with friends and associates. A handshake is their word and they mean it. That’s why they are called a Traditional – they act the same with all people. Nothing fake about their personality. They also have the distinction of belonging to the smallest group, comprising just 3% of the population.

With a love of some consistency and predictability in a Traditional’s life, does it mean they lead a boring existence? Hardly! A sense of routine can make changes to their daily routine seem much more interesting and exciting. Besides, a Traditional’s calm and steady personality provides an extraordinarily important function in society. Through their commitment to consistency and honesty, they add stability to daily life of others around them, helping to keep society from being pulled off course by those who constantly want to change what is tried and true. Without their stability, there would be fewer lasting common values that serve as glue to society and give the nation a sense of direction and purpose.

At work, in their church (if they attend), or in their lodge group, Traditionals are often the one that people ask to do a task when they want it done right. Their relatively quiet and easygoing manner, coupled with their commitment to doing everything well, means that others know they don’t have to continually check on them. Traditionals have qualities that many other people wish they had, but admit they don’t have the patience to practice. their travel habits tend to follow a more easy to understand pattern. A Traditional would rather go to places that have earned a well deserved reputation as being great, rather than experiment with more recently discovered and, potentially, less satisfying destinations.

These better known places offer much of what Traditionals want, including interesting things to do and predictable quality for hotels and restaurants. These well established destinations usually have major hotel chains at all price levels, a good selection of restaurants (particularly family style), and entertainment facilities that they may not have time to use very often back home, such as miniature golf courses, arcades, movie theaters, and established entertainers.

When given a choice, Traditionals usually prefer to travel with a group of people, rather than alone. Their preference is to take trips with friends because they enjoy the company of others. Interesting people Traditionals meet on a trip can also add to the overall quality of their experiences. Fully escorted tours are chosen more often for their trips, especially when going to Europe or someplace far away. Traditionals see the many advantages of these tours. These ensure that they hit all of the important spots, good hotels are selected so there’s no risk in their choices and, since restaurants are largely predetermined, they need not give much thought to the possibility of getting sick on local food. Traditionals enjoy sightseeing activities considerably, and it is especially helpful to have a guide who serves as an interpreter and can handle money exchange and other problem situations they might encounter in a strange country.

Traditionals travel less than all other groups, take fewer vacations, don’t go as far from home, stay away fewer nights, and spend less on those trips. Also, they often have a great preference for destinations you can drive to, rather than having to get there by airline. When Traditionals find a place they like, they would much rather return to it on a regular basis than seek out a new and different spot each time. In this manner, some of the risks associated with selecting a new spot for each vacation have been reduced, a typical pattern of Venturers.

When Traditionals do take a trip, there is a lot to talk about when they return-so much that they have seen, so much that they have done. They hope to retain the excitement of all this to some degree by picking up some of the visual reminders of where the Traditional has been. These might be silver sugar spoon sets from England to add to their collection at home, a matched set of Hawaiian shirts, or a desk-size copy of the Statue of Liberty or the Eiffel Tower. Crowds at places a Traditional visits don’t bother them. Rather, they like them. Lots of people having fun, like them, means that it’s a great place or they wouldn’t come.

A Traditional’s media habits contribute heavily to the rankings and importance of most of the top shows on television. Because they’re a social person, they enjoy the type of humor that permeates many sitcoms. Baseball is often the favorite sport for this type of personality with their interest growing in intensity during pennant races and world-series playoffs. Because Traditionals like the more captivating feel of television, they tend to read fewer magazines and books than other groups.

An important goal in life is to reduce risk and make sensible choices. Therefore, Traditionals tend to be a late adopter of new products. They prefer to wait until competing technologies have sorted themselves out, the winning products or brand names have established themselves, and prices have declined to the point that they now seem stable and offer very good value. In this manner, they are much better at saving money than venturesome types who will try out new unproven products when they first come out, and when they’re at their most expensive point in product life cycles. Thus, Traditionals seek out discount stores and follow advertised sales events. In their daily shopping, they tend to select more popular, well-known brands. Their popularity means that they must be good or so many others would not be using them.

In summary, someone who fits the personality type of a Traditional is a very valued person because they help to keep society on course. Their travel habits are more predictable than is true for a Venturer. In general, Traditionals want to choose destinations that are well known, provide good value for the money, and offer an array of the kinds of entertainment and things to do that they also enjoy back home. Traditionals don’t travel as much and, when they do, they’d rather jump into the family auto or camper/trailer, rather than get on an airplane and face the uncertainties that go with today’s air travel.

A Traditional’s preference for escorted tours when taking a trip grows out of the fact that ensures that they’ll see all of the important and interesting places at a price that is highly competitive, and because they also enjoy being around people. If you fit the Traditional personality, look for places that measure high in providing satisfaction for Traditionals to ensure that you will enjoy your next leisure trip to the fullest.