Positive Tourism

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.  

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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