Positive Tourism

Sebastian Filep, Jennifer Laing, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-90065-3 (ISBN)

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Tourism affects millions of individuals, numerous societies and environments in multiple, nuanced and overlapping ways. While it can be viewed as a frivolous leisure pursuit or simply a large industry, with potentially destructive impacts, it might also be understood in terms of its effects on human fulfilment, the good life and greater well-being.

This book calls for positive tourism, principally grounded in theories from positive psychology (the study of what makes life worth living), and the development of a body of knowledge that explains what characterises optimal tourist experiences, what enables host communities to flourish and what encourages workers in tourism to thrive. Through original research studies reported in this international volume we aim to further develop this knowledge. The intersections between ongoing and traditionally inspired applications of psychology in tourism and this new thrust in psychological inquiry promise to refresh and challenge tourism research.

This book will appeal to researchers and academics in tourism, leisure, positive psychology, management and related fields as well as graduate students, professionals and policy makers.

Sebastian Filep is Senior Lecturer at the Tourism Department, University of Otago, New Zealand. He specialises in tourism and well-being research. He has published internationally in peer-reviewed academic journals and books on the topic of human well-being. Jennifer Laing is Associate Professor in Management in the Department of Management and Marketing, La Trobe University, Australia. Her research interests include extraordinary tourist experiences, the role of events in society, travel narratives and wellness tourism. She has co-written five and edited two books on tourism and/or events. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management and Founding Co-Director of the Quality of Life Research Centre, Claremont Graduate University, USA. He is noted for his work on happiness, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow.

Lists of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Part I: Positive Tourism

What is Positive Tourism? Why Do We Need It?
Sebastian Filep, Jennifer Laing and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Part II: Positive Tourist Experiences

Meaningful Vacation Experiences
Jan Packer and Chelsea Gill

Tourism and Love: How Do Tourist Experiences Affect Romantic Relationships?
Jessica de Bloom, Sabine Geurts and Martin Lohmann

Tourists’ Accounts of Learning and Positive Emotions Through Sensory Experiences
Xavier Matteucci

Dark Tourism and Dark Events: A Journey to Positive Resolution and Well-Being
Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost

The Role of Humour in Contributing to Tourism Experiences
Anja Pabel

Employing Hedonia and Eudaimonia to Explore Differences Between Three Groups of Wellness Tourists on the Experiential, the Motivational and the Global Level
Cornelia Voigt

Why Do We Travel? A Positive Psychological Model for Travel Motivation
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and John Coffey

Part III: Positive Host Communities

Examining Kindness of Strangers in Tourism: Trail Magic on the Appalachian Trail
Troy Glover and Sebastian Filep

The Impact of Tourism on the Quality of Life of Local Industry Employees in Ubud, Bali
Peita Hillman, Brent D. Moyle, Betty Weiler and Deborah Che

Part IV: Positive Tourism Workers

Transformative Guiding and Long-Distance Walking
Robert Saunders, Betty Weiler and Jennifer Laing

Co-creation and Experience Brokering in Guided Adventure Tours
Susan Houge Mackenzie and John Kerr

Part V: Conclusions and Future Directions

Synthesising Positive Tourism

Sebastian Filep, Jennifer Laing and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Tourism
Zusatzinfo	11 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-90065-6 / 1138900656
ISBN-13	978-1-138-90065-3 / 9781138900653
Zustand	Neuware