Editorial: Outside the Comfort Zone: What Can Psychology Learn From Tourism (and Vice Versa)

Passafaro, Paola; Chiarolanza, Claudia; Amato, Clara; Barbieri, Barbara; Bocci, Elena; Sarrica, Mauro

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.650741

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“…This field of research has been popular with a variety of specialists such as mental health practitioners, behavior therapists, and other psychologists ( Gilligan and Dilts, 2009 ). The paradox noticed by many is that while finding oneself in the comfort zone provides calm and quietness ( Passafaro et al, 2021 ), at the same time it might prevent growth ( Santoro and Major, 2012 ; Woodward and Kliestik, 2021 ). The solution researchers seem to agree upon is to balance those two divergent forces (the one that keeps us wanting to remain still and the one that makes us wanting to grow) to improve our lives ( Berno and Ward, 2005 ).…”

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Tourists’ apprehension toward choosing the next destination: A study based on the learning zone model

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The current research is based on Senninger’s Learning Zone Model applied to the tourists’ comfort zone. This model was created in 2000 and it proved to be useful in many applied areas: Psychology, Sociology, Marketing and Management. This modes is a behavioral one and shows how a person can justify his action based on previous tested experiences (comfort zone) or dares to step beyond in fear, learn or growth zone. Our research is extending the existent area of expertise to tourism. We aimed at exploring whether the tourists’ apprehension toward choosing their next destination from a comfort zone perspective or rather from the other zones’ perspectives such as fear, learning or growth. To meet this purpose we conducted a mixed method: firstly a qualitative one, an in-depth interview based on Delphi method with 10 tourism specialists and secondly an online survey on 208 Generation Z tourists. The interviews were meant to help developing a 20 items scale (5 items for each level of the model) to measure from which of the 4 zones are the respondents making the choice of the future travel destination. Our conclusions show that Gen Z tourists display behaviors that can be associated with learning or growth zones rather than the comfort zone. This is relevant when choosing the next travel destination, because our findings could bring about a new approach to promoting tourist destinations as part of various products. As a result, a large range of managerial tools can better adapt the promotion messages to the target market from a new psychological perspective.

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Tourists’ apprehension toward choosing the next destination: A study based on the learning zone model

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Psychological Characteristics of Tourist Behavior During a Pandemic and Expectations of Future Tourists

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Handbook of Research on the Impacts and Implications of COVID-19 on the Tourism Industry

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The COVID-19 pandemic has radically cut into tourism behaviors and virtually disabled any form of tourism. This chapter deals with the problem of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the changes of tourist behavior and how these changes are reflected in the wellbeing of potential tourists. The purpose of this chapter is to find out what are the psychological characteristics that will help to return to tourist behavior after the pandemic subsides. Next, the chapter will pay attention to the relationship between the gradual return to tourist activities and safe, but at the same time relaxed tourist behavior. The author performed a method of systematic review, which performed a systematic analysis of the most relevant target literature since the COVID-19 pandemic has existed. Based on the obtained results, the author designed a model of the psychological characteristics of safe tourist behavior at the transition to the post-COVID-19 period.

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Editorial: Outside the Comfort Zone: What Can Psychology Learn From Tourism (and Vice Versa)

Cited by 2 publications

References 13 publications

Tourists’ apprehension toward choosing the next destination: A study based on the learning zone model

Tourists’ apprehension toward choosing the next destination: A study based on the learning zone model

Psychological Characteristics of Tourist Behavior During a Pandemic and Expectations of Future Tourists

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