“…It has been broadly recognized that emotions embody the value in tourism experiences (Knobloch, Robertson, & Aitken, 2017), are important mediators of recommendation and other target outcomes (Hosany & Gilbert, 2010;Prayag, Hosany, & Odeh, 2013), and fuel the social meanings of tourism experiences (Mitas, Yarnal, & Chick, 2012). Emotions also give practitioners the best entry point for measuring and managing experiences (Bastiaansen et al, 2019;Li, Scott, & Walters, 2015;Moyle, Moyle, Bec, & Scott, 2017;Skavronskaya et al, 2017).…”