Emotion and Environment: Visitors' Extraordinary Experiences along the Dalton Highway in Alaska

Positive Emotion in Nature as a Precursor to Learning

“…A review of recent and classic literature supports the value of experience in nature and offers potential models for studying the emotional responses (Farber & Hall, 2007;Barrie, 2001;Frederickson & Anderson, 1999;Schmidt & Little, 2007) and learning in natural areas (Falk and Storksdiek, 2010;Dierking, Rennie, Anderson, & Ellenboggen, 2003). Nature generates such positive emotions and therefore can lead to learning.…”

“…While studying 80 adults in the Alaskan wilderness she categorized descriptions of the meaning made from their experience: personal, site and outcome. In addition, Farber and Hall (2007) conducted a study of 445 participants in Alaska and found descriptors in the following categories; wildlife, scenery, recreational activity, and social interaction. Falk and Storksdiek (2010) reported that cognition and emotion can be blended in a leisure experience which is determined by personal motivation and how the individual makes meaning.…”

“…An experience in nature is an event and the emotion inspiring awe is "the meaning of [the experience] to the participant" (Batcher, 1981). Farber and Hall (2007) surveyed park visitors about a special experience they had in nature, the context of the experience and emotions resulting from the experience. Schmidt and Little (2007) determined that emotions can be beneficial and caused by nature.…”

A multisensory phenomenology of interrail mobilities

“…Our study has shown how interrail unfolds in the everyday of rail travel, and has exemplified how the multisensory cannot be reduced to 'the mobile', but traverse incidences of movement and rest, moorings and mobility. Inspired by the non-representational, multisensory phenomenology thus questions the symbolic claims that position rail space outside that of the 'normal' routines and practices of everyday life (Kirby, 1997), as well as wider discourses on tourism consumption as extraordinary, liminal, moments of experiencing (Farber & Hall, 2007;Mossberg, 2008). Instead mobile spatialities have been woven into the everyday, as are notions of the monotonous, mundane or 'banal' (Binnie, Edensor, Holloway, Millington, & Young, 2007).…”

Tourists as Mobile Gamers: Gamification for Tourism Marketing

“…Researchers suggest that leisure experiences are about feeling, fantasy and fun (Holbrook & Hirschman, 1982), escape and relaxation (Beard & Ragheb, 1983), entertainment (Pine & Gilmore, 1999;Farber & Hall 2007), novelty and surprise (Dunman & Mattila, 2005). The research on tourist experiences could benefit from gaming research.…”