Family Holidays: A Research Review and Application to New Zealand

Schänzel, Heike; Smith, Karen; Weaver, Adam

doi:10.1080/11745398.2005.10600965

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“…Family holidays, family leisure and family outdoor recreation are identified for their positive contributions to families but also face real challenges to achieve engagement with all family members (Minnaert, Maitland, & Miller, 2009;Reis, ThompsonCarr, & Lovelock, 2012). Despite the importance of the family market, relatively little research has been conducted on the social significance of holidays that involve parents and children (Carr, 2011;Schänzel, Smith, & Weaver, 2005). Most family tourism research is concerned with marketing and decision-making processes and roles (Bronner & de Hoog, 2008;Lehto et al, 2009;Nichols & Snepenger, 1988).…”

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“…To date, quantitative research has predominated in tourism resulting in mainly individual interpretations of group behaviour unsuitable to account for the sociality present in the collective experience of family groups (Schänzel, 2010). Additionally most family tourism research is market-and consumer-driven (Lehto et al, 2009;Schänzel, Smith, & Weaver, 2005) with less focus into broader experiential dimensions and group dynamic perspectives. This resulted in limited understandings of family functioning, described by Olsen & Gorall (2003) as the delicate balance between family cohesion and family adaptability, away from home.…”

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“…This paper then responds to calls for the inclusion of rich sociality into tourism theory (Obrador, 2012). Family holidays involve leisure travel away from home for more than one day taken within the context of a family group (at least one child and one adult) (Schänzel et al, 2005). The contribution of this paper is the critical and holistic approach to tourism and leisure concepts taken, revealing that family holidays are a more complex mix of collective and individual experiences and interrelationships than previously recognized.…”

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The Socialization of Families Away from Home: Group Dynamics and Family Functioning on Holiday

Schänzel

Smith

2014

Leisure Sciences

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Abstract:The focus on individuals in tourism research has led to limited and fragmented research on family groups and their leisure experiences away from home. This article extends conceptual and theoretical understandings within family tourism research by offering a threedimensional framework inclusive of group perspectives. A whole-family methodology was used with 10 families (10 fathers, 10 mothers and 20 children) in New Zealand as a more critical and holistic approach to tourism concepts. Empirical findings illustrate group dynamics along with the underrepresented generational perspectives of children and gender perspectives of fathers to provide insights into family functioning. This resulted in a threelayered model of family holiday experiences inclusive of group sociality. The collective intentionality of family togetherness on holiday is contrasted with more balanced modes in own time, highlighting the complexity of socialization within tourism theory and practice.

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The Socialization of Families Away from Home: Group Dynamics and Family Functioning on Holiday

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Smith

2014

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“…Given its economic significance, it is surprising that family holidays have largely been marginalised in research that examines leisure travel (Schänzel et al, 2005) and is deemed to be a more 'mundane' and trivial type of tourism (Baerenholdt et al, 2004). Most family tourism research is market-and consumer-driven and focused on the themes of decision processes and roles (Lehto et al, 2009) with a lack of research into broader experiential dimensions.…”

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The absence of fatherhood: achieving true gender scholarship in family tourism research

Schänzel

Smith

2011

Annals of Leisure Research

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Word count: 554659Key words: family holidays, gender relations, fathers, mothers, masculinities, tourist experiences 2 AbstractThe lack of research into fathers on holiday is a reminder that understandings of masculinities and gender relations in tourism are absent compared to other disciplinary areas. Research on family holiday experiences is largely informed by feminist gender representations rather then examinations of femininities and masculinities. True gender scholarship requires more holistic and critical appraisals of gender relations that recognise the intersection between gender and other social roles. This lead to the adoption of whole-family research for this study into domestic summer holiday experiences in New Zealand, based on ten families (ten fathers, ten mothers, and 20 children) being interviewed three times over the course of one year. The findings highlighted similarities and differences in the meanings and roles for the fathers and mothers. For example, fathers take on primary responsibilities as entertainer of the children and facilitator of mothers' own interests, roles which are little acknowledged in the literature.

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“…The first group of factors includes inter alia a tourist's education, financial situation (Schänzel et al, 2005), belonging to a particular social group (Crompton, 1981). Among the factors relating to the purchase of a tourism product one can find e.g.…”

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Family Decisions on the Tourist Market

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2015

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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ABSTRACT. The purpose of this article is to present the specificity of family decisions on the tourist market. The first part of the article describes the four models of family decision-making and identifies the determinants of making joint and individual decisions. The second part discusses the profiling of a tourist whose tourist-trip-related family decisions are made jointly and of a tourist whose decisions in this respect are dominated by the family member whose income is the highest. Moreover, the areas of tourist decisions were recognised showing that decisions made by families with dependent children were on the one hand similar whilst on the other different from those made by childless families. Similar analysis was conducted among the families with dependent children who play the role of initiator, advisor and decision-maker in terms of organizing a tourist trip and among those families where children do not play such roles. Empirical data obtained in the course of primary research conducted in Krakow in 2014 were used as the basis of this study.

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Family Holidays: A Research Review and Application to New Zealand

Cited by 54 publications

References 49 publications

The Socialization of Families Away from Home: Group Dynamics and Family Functioning on Holiday

The Socialization of Families Away from Home: Group Dynamics and Family Functioning on Holiday

The absence of fatherhood: achieving true gender scholarship in family tourism research

Family Decisions on the Tourist Market

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