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1st Edition

Positive Tourism

Edited By Sebastian Filep, Jennifer Laing, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copyright 2017
232 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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,... Read more

Lists of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Part I: Positive Tourism

  1. What is Positive Tourism? Why Do We Need It?

    2.

    Sebastian Filep, Jennifer Laing and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

    Part II: Positive Tourist Experiences

  2. Meaningful Vacation Experiences

    3.

    Jan Packer and Chelsea Gill

  3. Tourism and Love: How Do Tourist Experiences Affect Romantic Relationships?

    4.

    Jessica de Bloom, Sabine Geurts and Martin Lohmann

  4. Tourists’ Accounts of Learning and Positive Emotions Through Sensory Experiences

    5.

    Xavier Matteucci

  5. Dark Tourism and Dark Events: A Journey to Positive Resolution and Well-Being

    6.

    Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost

  6. The Role of Humour in Contributing to Tourism Experiences

    7.

    Anja Pabel

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

    8.

    Cornelia Voigt

  8. Why Do We Travel? A Positive Psychological Model for Travel Motivation

    9.

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and John Coffey

    Part III: Positive Host Communities

  9. Examining Kindness of Strangers in Tourism: Trail Magic on the Appalachian Trail

    10.

    Troy Glover and Sebastian Filep

  10. The Impact of Tourism on the Quality of Life of Local Industry Employees in Ubud, Bali

    11.

    Peita Hillman, Brent D. Moyle, Betty Weiler and Deborah Che

    Part IV: Positive Tourism Workers

  11. Transformative Guiding and Long-Distance Walking

    12.

    Robert Saunders, Betty Weiler and Jennifer Laing

  12. Co-creation and Experience Brokering in Guided Adventure Tours

    13. Susan Houge Mackenzie and John Kerr

    Part V: Conclusions and Future Directions

  13. Synthesising Positive Tourism

Sebastian Filep, Jennifer Laing and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Index

Biography

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.
 

"In conclusion, this well written edited book achieves to further knowledge on optimal tourist experiences but more importantly has started documenting research on worker well-being and host-community well-being through the lens of positive psychology... the value of this book, particularly for researchers, lies as much in what is presented making an original contribution to knowledge as in highlighting what is missing or where our attention in tourism research should be."

Heike Schänzel, School of Hospitality & Tourism, Auckland University of Technology

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