Positive Tourism by Filep Sebastian. Laing Jennifer Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly

Author:Filep, Sebastian.,Laing, Jennifer,Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in tourism

In no other context in life are individuals as free to choose the nature of their experiences as in leisure and tourism – in tourism perhaps even more intensively because tourism experiences tend to be separated from everyday life chores and commitments. Thus tourism has the potential to lead to well-being. Surprisingly, up until the 2000s, empirical research into well-being of tourists largely does not exist. However, since the positive psychology movement facilitated the scientific assessment of previously somewhat elusive constructs, there have been calls for drawing upon positive psychology to study the linkages between tourism and well-being (Filep, 2012; Pearce, 2009). Since then the relationship between tourism and well-being has slowly become one of the main topics in current tourism publications and research collections have begun to be issued (Filep & Pearce, 2014; Pearce, Filep & Ross, 2011). In a recent review of existing works, however, Filep (2012) notes that nearly all existing empirical studies in tourism solely focus on hedonic well-being (in other words, SWB). He specifically promotes a more inclusive conceptualisation of well-being that incorporates eudaimonia. It also appears that in tourism well-being is mostly assessed at the global outcome level, rather than the experiential or motivational level.

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