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Tourism and wellbeing

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In this paper, the authors examine the philosophical background of wellbeing from different perspectives and take a closer look at how these frameworks can inform tourism research and practices, and explore the relationship between diverse terminologies and perspectives as well as the ways in which hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing can be derived through tourism experiences.
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This article is published in Annals of Tourism Research.The article was published on 2017-09-01. It has received 281 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tourism.

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Liquidness: conceptualising water within boating tourism.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the elemental materialities of water mobilities, bringing the agentive qualities of water to the centre of theoretical discussion of tourism, and propose the concept of water-boat-human assemblage for examining boating tourism in terms of liquid relationships.
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Cultural involvement and attitudes toward tourism: Examining serial mediation effects of residents’ spiritual wellbeing and place attachment

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the effect of cultural involvement on residents' attitudes toward tourism development and further examined the underlying mechanism of this impact through spiritual wellbeing and place attachment.
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Effects of customer-to-customer social interactions in virtual travel communities on brand attachment: The mediating role of social well-being

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effects of social interaction among members of virtual travel communities operated by online travel agency brands on brand attachment, and found that CCSI is positively related to five social well-being dimensions and brand attachment.
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Mixed feelings?: fluctuations in well-being during tourist travels

TL;DR: The search for practices that increase people's well-being has expanded significantly in recent years as mentioned in this paper and this can be seen in the tourism sector, since leisure travel is generally considered a promote...
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Family tourism improves parents’ well-being and children’s generic skills

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employed a pretest-post-test design to examine the beneficial effects of family tourism on parents' well-being and their children's generic skills.
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On Happiness and Human Potentials: A Review of Research on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being

TL;DR: This review considers research from both perspectives concerning the nature of well-being, its antecedents, and its stability across time and culture.
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The social context of well-being.

TL;DR: This work confirms that social capital is strongly linked to subjective well-being through many independent channels and in several different forms, both directly and through their impact on health.
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Know Thyself and Become What You are: A Eudaimonic Approach to Psychological Well-Being

TL;DR: Ryff as mentioned in this paper revisited key messages from Aristotle's Nichomacean Ethics to strengthen conceptual foundations of eudaimonic well-being, and examined ideas about positive human functioning from existential and utilitarian philosophy as well as clinical, developmental, and humanistic psychology.
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Destination Image, Self-Congruity, and Travel Behavior: Toward an Integrative Model

TL;DR: In this article, an integrative model of destination image, self-congruity, and travel behavior is described, in particular, the model postulates relationships between destination environment, destination visitor image, tourists' self-concept, selfcongruity, functional congruity (the match between the utilitarian attributes of the destination and tourists' ideal expectations related to those attributes), and travel behaviour.
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Host perceptions of tourism: a review of the research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore critically the development of the research into residents' perceptions of tourism, highlighting key themes and trends in the literature, and identify a number of limitations in the research, including a narrow case study base, a dependence on quantitative methods, a focus on perceptions as opposed to responses, and the exclusion of the tourist from the majority of research.
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