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A Research Agenda for Tourism and Wellbeing

Henna Konu, Melanie K. Smith (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
270 Seiten
2024
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80392-433-5 (ISBN)
129,95 inkl. MwSt
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.

Interdisciplinary and multidimensional in its approach, this insightful Research Agenda critically analyses the principal issues that have emerged in recent years from tourism and wellbeing studies. It provides a detailed analysis of definitions and key concepts and explores the research agenda related to product and service development, motivation, segmentation and management using established as well as experimental methodologies.



Enlightening contributions from leading scholars detail the role, indicators, and measurement of wellbeing in tourism economics, expertly examining issues of individual wellbeing and how experiences of wellbeing can be facilitated for both employees and tourists. The various impacts of tourism on wellbeing are analysed from a diverse range of perspectives, including collective experiences of social and diasporic tourism and individual experiences of wellbeing and transformation.



Succinct and cutting-edge, A Research Agenda for Tourism and Wellbeing will appeal to students, academics, and researchers in tourism, sociology, economics, business, psychology, and human geography. It will also prove insightful to practitioners involved in product and service development, tourism and destination, marketing and human resources management sectors.

Edited by Henna Konu, Associate Professor of Tourism Business, Business School, University of Eastern Finland, Finland and Melanie Kay Smith, Associate Professor in Tourism Management, Budapest Metropolitan University, Hungary, Visiting Lecturer, University of Tartu, Pärnu College, Estonia and Research Associate, Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Contents:

1 Progress in tourism and wellbeing research 1
Melanie Kay Smith and Henna Konu

PART I ECONOMICS AND MEASUREMENT OF
WELLBEING IN TOURISM
2 Addressing the wellbeing gap in tourism economics 21
Larry Dwyer
3 Indicators of quality of life in tourism: the
perspective of demand and supply interaction 39
Adiyukh Berbekova and Muzaffer Uysal

PART II INDIVIDUAL WELLBEING IN TOURISM
4 Healthy hotels: contribution of employee wellness
programs 57
Susan E. Gordon and Xinran Lehto
5 Tourist idleness and eudaimonic wellbeing: an
exploratory study 77
Jelena Farkić, Gorana Isailovic and Dušan Perić
6 Nature as a contributor to wellbeing and future
tourism: Finnish Gen Zers seeking happiness and
meaning in life 99
Miia Grénman, Juulia Räikkönen and Fanny Aapio

PART III FACILITATING WELLBEING EXPERIENCES IN TOURISM
7 Nature connection and wellbeing in tourism experiences 119
Emma Pope and Henna Konu
8 Why blue spaces and wellbeing matter for tourism
and leisure businesses 137
Catherine Kelly
9 Cross-national analysis of wellness tourism
concepts, tourists’ motivations, and service preferences 155
Daumantas Bočkus, Elli Vento and Raija Komppula

PART IV EFFECTS OF TOURISM ON WELLBEING
10 Wellbeing outcomes of social tourism: evidence
from Finland 177
Elli Vento, Scott McCabe and Raija Komppula
11 African diaspora tourists’ experiences of wellbeing 195
Xavier Matteucci, Sebastian Filep, Jerram
Bateman and Tony Binns
12 Smells like my vacation: attenuating the fadeout effect 211
Ondrej Mitas and Marcel Bastiaansen
13 Future directions of tourism and wellbeing 231
Henna Konu and Melanie Kay Smith

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Elgar Research Agendas
Verlagsort Cheltenham
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Wirtschaft
ISBN-10 1-80392-433-0 / 1803924330
ISBN-13 978-1-80392-433-5 / 9781803924335
Zustand Neuware
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