pull factor

The lure of another home, country, region, organization, or religion.

Noun

  1. The lure of another home, country, region, organization, or religion.
    • 1853, Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, M. Nijhoff, page 136, […] the fact that agricultural land of acknowledged fertility was lying waste on Bawean constituted a powerful pull factor...
    • 1974, Tuğrul Akçura, "Urbanization in Turkey and Some Examples", in Peter Benedict, Erol Tümertekin, and Fatma Mansur (eds.), Turkey: Geographic and social perspectives, E.J. Brill, →ISBN, page 297, […] the rapidly...
    • 2004, Josef A. Mazanec et al., Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure, CABI Publishing (2004), p. 61, "Four [sic] pull factors – 'safety', 'nature/outdoor', 'historical/cultural', 'religious', and...

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