Motorhoming consists of a way of travelling in vehicles that incorporate a living space. These vehicles usually include a sleeping area, a kitchen, a dining area and, in some cases, a bathroom and shower. People who travel in motorhomes choose a type of tourism that does not rely on traditional touristic infrastructures. They sleep in their own beds, cook their own food and can be self-sufficient and independent for several days without interacting with the rest of society. The main objective of this article is to propose a typology of European motorhome travellers, taking the Algarve region (in southern Portugal) as a case study. Previous investigations conducted in other regions of the world have proposed some typologies of motorhome travellers, but the sociocultural contexts where they were elaborated are very different from the European reality, namely from the studied region. Contrasting with the previous typologies, which used only one or two characteristics of the motorhomers, the proposed typology combines their objective attributes with their subjective discourses about the trip. The three resulting types were designated as ‘enjoyers’, ‘seekers’ and ‘vacationers’.

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“享受者”、“探索者”和“度假者”。关于欧洲房车旅行者类型的提案

房车旅行是一种乘坐带有居住空间的车辆旅行的方式。这些车辆通常包括睡眠区、厨房、用餐区，在某些情况下还包括浴室和淋浴。乘坐房车旅行的人们选择了一种不依赖传统旅游基础设施的旅游方式。他们睡在自己的床上，自己做饭，可以自给自足、独立几天，无需与社会其他人互动。本文的主要目的是以阿尔加维地区（葡萄牙南部）作为案例研究，提出欧洲房车旅行者的类型学。此前在世界其他地区进行的调查提出了房车旅行者的一些类型，但阐述这些类型的社会文化背景与欧洲现实（即研究地区）有很大不同。与之前仅使用房车旅行者的一两个特征的类型相比，所提出的类型将他们的客观属性与他们对旅行的主观话语结合起来。由此产生的三种类型被指定为“享受者”、“探索者”和“度假者”。