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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, 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. Through original research studies reported in this international volume we aim to further develop this knowledge. The intersections between ongoing and traditionally inspired applications of psychology in tourism and this new thrust in psychological inquiry promise to refresh and challenge tourism research.
This book will appeal to researchers and academics in tourism, leisure, positive psychology, management and related fields as well as graduate students, professionals and policy makers.
Show moreTourism 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, 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. Through original research studies reported in this international volume we aim to further develop this knowledge. The intersections between ongoing and traditionally inspired applications of psychology in tourism and this new thrust in psychological inquiry promise to refresh and challenge tourism research.
This book will appeal to researchers and academics in tourism, leisure, positive psychology, management and related fields as well as graduate students, professionals and policy makers.
Show moreLists of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Part I: Positive Tourism
Sebastian Filep, Jennifer Laing and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Part II: Positive Tourist Experiences
Jan Packer and Chelsea Gill
Jessica de Bloom, Sabine Geurts and Martin Lohmann
Xavier Matteucci
Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost
Anja Pabel
Cornelia Voigt
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and John Coffey
Part III: Positive Host Communities
Troy Glover and Sebastian Filep
Peita Hillman, Brent D. Moyle, Betty Weiler and Deborah Che
Part IV: Positive Tourism Workers
Robert Saunders, Betty Weiler and Jennifer Laing
Susan Houge Mackenzie and John Kerr
Part V: Conclusions and Future Directions
Sebastian Filep, Jennifer Laing and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Index
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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