Spatial patterns of leisure travel by trip purpose

This article reports the problems encountered and procedures developed to conduct a secondary analysis of the 1977 National Travel Survey. Using the travel regions developed by the Travel Industry Association of America, these procedures were applied in an analysis of the interregional distribution of leisure travel by trip purpose. The results indicate that differences in travel patterns exist among different leisure purposes; that the South and Great Lakers were the major attractor and generator, respectively, of leisure travel for all purposes; and that interaction existed across purposes betweent the New England and Eastern Gateway regions and between the Mountain West and Far West regions.