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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.About:
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.read more
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Would Travel Experiences or Possessions Make People Happier?
TL;DR: This article showed that tourism experiences tend to cultivate happiness better than material possessions, by empirically testing a potential underlying mechanism of such superiority, i.e., tourism's potential to cultivate eudaimonia (i.e. the more enduring form of happiness that accounts for the bigger picture beyond the self).
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Ageism in tourism: an intergroup contact theory approach
Krisztina Kolos,Zsófia Kenesei +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored the antecedents of ageism in tourism by investigating the impact of contact quality on ageism and addressing the mediating roles of metastereotypes and aging anxiety, and the moderating role of gender.
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The Role of Customer Engagement in Sustaining Subjective Well-being After a Travel Experience: Findings From a Three-Wave Study
TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigate the linkages between destination brand experience (DBE), customer engagement (CE), and subjective well-being (SWB) over time and show that CE significantly mediates the effects of the sensory and affective dimensions of DBE on tourists' SWB over time.
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Constructing the transformative wellness service framework: A phenomenological study
Bon-Young Kim,Xiaotao Yang +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a Transformative Wellness Service (TWS) framework is proposed for health and wellness services in a hotel in Québec, Canada, based on the lived experiences of 13 employees.
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How virtual wellness retreat experiences may influence psychological well-being
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored how virtual wellness retreat experiences may influence psychological well-being and suggested new directions for tourist wellbeing research by exploring wellbeing in relation to the emerging phenomenon of virtual wellbeing retreats.
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On Happiness and Human Potentials: A Review of Research on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being
Richard M. Ryan,Edward L. Deci +1 more
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Know Thyself and Become What You are: A Eudaimonic Approach to Psychological Well-Being
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Destination Image, Self-Congruity, and Travel Behavior: Toward an Integrative Model
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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.
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