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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
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"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
