Meaningful tourism experiences and the cultivation of wellbeing effects: transformative practice of posttraumatic travel
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Meaningful tourism experiences, including pleasure and personal growth, significantly boost wellbeing and gratitude after collective trauma. These findings highlight tourism
Area Of Science
- Psychology
- Tourism Studies
- Wellbeing Research
Background
- Major traumatic events can impede wellbeing, yet travel offers potential for healing and meaning reconstruction.
- Empirical evidence linking tourism experiences to enhanced wellbeing post-trauma is limited, especially in the post-pandemic era.
- Understanding the psychological impacts of collective trauma, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, on travelers is crucial.
Purpose Of The Study
- To investigate how reflective and meaningful tourism experiences contribute to gratitude and multidimensional wellbeing.
- To explore the psychological impacts of prolonged pandemic-related trauma on tourists.
- To identify and validate the dimensions of meaningful tourism experiences.
Main Methods
- A sequential mixed-methods design combining qualitative interviews (n=20) and quantitative surveys (n=714).
- Qualitative data analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis to identify themes of meaningful tourism experiences.
- Quantitative data analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to test relationships between meaningful tourism experiences, gratitude, and wellbeing.
Main Results
- Meaningful tourism experiences were characterized by five dimensions: pleasure, freedom, personal growth, creating memories, and examining life.
- These experiences significantly enhanced eudaimonic and hedonic tourism wellbeing, and state gratitude.
- Eudaimonic tourism wellbeing and state gratitude mediated the effects on overall subjective and psychological wellbeing.
Conclusions
- Tourism can serve as a significant pathway for enhancing wellbeing and fostering gratitude following collective trauma.
- The findings provide a validated framework for understanding meaningful tourism experiences and their psychological benefits.
- Implications for designing transformative tourism experiences that promote healing and wellbeing in the post-traumatic context.
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