Diaspora tourists' emotional experience

Abstract

This article attempts to empirically test a model to explain the hypothesized relationships between important constructs such as emotional experience, personal involvement, destination image, destination satisfaction, and place attachment as antecedents of the future intentions of mature/senior diaspora tourists. The hypothesized relationships were explored using a sample of 419 mature/senior diaspora tourists visiting Ghana. A three-step process was used to explore, confirm and test the interrelationships between the constructs. The results showed that emotional experiences related to joy and love influenced personal involvement. While other hypothesized relationships were supported, unpleasantness and positive surprise did not have a direct effect on personal involvement. Future studies can apply this model to understand other types of tourism.

Only Time Will Tell: Unraveling the Temporal Effect of Negative Affective Encounters in Diaspora Tourism

“…Diaspora tourism, conceptualized as the tourism produced, consumed, and experienced by diasporic communities (Coles and Timothy 2004), has attracted growing interest from both scholars and practitioners in the last two decades. We have seen growing scholarly attention to the motivations, experiences, and impacts of diaspora tourism within diverse cultural contexts, such as the Chinese diaspora (e.g., Huang and Chen 2021; Li and McKercher 2016a, 2016b; Zhu 2020; Zou, Meng, and Li 2021), the African diaspora (Otoo, Kim, and Stylidis 2021; Timothy and Teye 2004), the Scottish diaspora (Basu, 2007), the Jewish diaspora (Corsale and Krakover 2019; Ioannides and Ioannides 2004), the Indian diaspora (Hannam 2004), and so forth. It is universally believed that diaspora tourism plays a vital role in strengthening immigrants’ ancestral ties and increasing their self-esteem, life satisfaction, and well-being over time.…”

“…It is universally believed that diaspora tourism plays a vital role in strengthening immigrants’ ancestral ties and increasing their self-esteem, life satisfaction, and well-being over time. For example, recent studies have focused on how positive travel encounters shape diaspora tourists’ place attachment, social connectedness, and subjective well-being (Huang, Hung, and Chen 2018; Li and Chan 2020; Li and McKercher 2016a); and how home return travelers’ nostalgic memory and affective arousal positively affect their place identity, place dependence, and social bonding (Otoo, Kim, and Stylidis 2021; Zou, Meng, and Li 2021). However, the “dark side” of diaspora tourism seems to have been marginalized.…”

“…The rapidly growing number of international migrants and their strong desire to maintain closer ties to their ancestral hometowns have made diaspora tourism an increasingly important phenomenon. As a result, the recent tourism literature has seen an upsurge of interest in investigating the motivations, experiences, and consequences of diaspora tourism (e.g., Huang and Chen 2021; Li, McKercher, and Chan 2020; Otoo, Kim, and Stylidis 2021; Zhu 2020; Zou, Meng, and Li 2021). Studies have been undertaken to examine how diaspora tourism strengthens migrants’ place attachment (Li and McKercher 2016a) and ties to diasporic identity and culture (Mathijsen 2019), forges various types of social capital (Elo and Minto-Coy 2018; Li 2020), and enhances their life satisfaction and well-being (Li and Chan 2020).…”

Indian diaspora in Ghana: cultural and family heritage of tourists' travel preference

“…People from non-indigenous cultures, on the other hand, often maintain a sense of cultural affiliation, a desire to return to one’s homeland, and an urge to return to their ancestral past (Alexander, et al , 2017; Fourie and Santana-Gallega, 2013; Warren, 2019). Although diaspora tourism has been recognized in literature (Otoo et al , 2021b; Seraphin et al , 2021; Scheyvens, 2007), there is inadequate study on cultural heritage as a factor for diasporic tourism (Boukhris, 2017; Dillette, 2021; Hussan, 2019), making it worthy of academic investigation within diaspora tourism. Thus, this study attempts to advance the empirical understanding of cultural heritage of Indian migrants in context.…”

Towards Employing Tourism and Hospitality Services in Marketing Roots Tourism to Egypt

“…Researches on root tourism are relatively recent, and the number of scientific papers on this topic have increased in latest years (Ferrari et al 2021). Increasing awareness of the social, cultural and emotional connection with the immigrant"s homeland is one of the reasons for research interest on root tourism (Otoo et al 2021b). Because of the hard competition for visitors, tourism destinations always attempt to present new niche products and search for new market opportunities.…”