Outdoor tourism to escape social surveillance: health gains but sustainability costs

Akhoundogli, Mahshad; Buckley, Ralf

doi:10.1080/14724049.2021.1934688

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“…Travel motivation is recognized as a key factor underlying tourist behaviors, playing a central role in determining tourist participation, satisfaction and loyalty (Yoon and Uysal, 2005;Mechinda et al, 2009;Pestana et al, 2020). Recent studies move beyond these common findings to highlight the positive links between travel motivations and eudaimonic well-being (Akhoundogli and Buckley, 2021;Pomfret, 2021). For example, Iwaarden and Nawijn (2021) suggest that the motives underpinning pilgrimage strengthen autonomy, relatedness, purpose in life and self-acceptance.…”

Section: Travel Motivation and Emotional Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of eudaimonic well-being on experience and loyalty: a tourism context

Al-Okaily

Alzboun

Alrawadieh

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Purpose The effects of travel motivation and emotional experience on both tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty are recognized and have been extensively researched as key factors in tourism success. However, the structural relationships between these factors, considering the mediating effects of eudaimonic well-being (optimal psychological functioning), have been scarcely investigated in the consumer tourist behaviors literature. This study aims to develop an integrated model explaining the impact of travel motivation and emotional experience on tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty, mediated by eudaimonic well-being in the realm of domestic tourism. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative survey was conducted with 321 domestic tourists visiting Aqaba in Jordan; structural equation modeling was used to analyze the empirical data. Findings The findings of this study indicate that both travel motivation and emotional experience have a direct effect on eudaimonic well-being and that eudaimonic well-being has a direct effect on both tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty. Additionally, travel motivation and emotional experience have significant indirect impacts on post-consumption behaviors mediated by eudaimonic well-being. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature on consumer behavior in a tourism context by developing a fresh model that improves theoretical knowledge of the relationships between travel motivation, emotional experience and eudaimonic well-being, which underlie tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty formation. This study also advances theoretical understanding of the key roles of eudaimonic well-being in the tourist experience. Managerial implications of these findings are discussed.

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Section: Travel Motivation and Emotional Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of eudaimonic well-being on experience and loyalty: a tourism context

Al-Okaily

Alzboun

Alrawadieh

et al. 2022

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“…An issue not considered by both public administrations and tourism industry professionals. Moreover, the second is that happiness is crucial in boosting health tourism in rural areas sustainably and competitively [55].…”

Section: Safety (S) As the Axis Of Healthy Tourismmentioning

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The trinomial health, safety and happiness promote rural tourism.

2023

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Background Health and safety protocols have become a requirement to promote rural tourism (PRT). From this perspective, this paper empirically analyses how the health and safety dimensions influence the happiness of hotel managers and rural tourists in the post-Covid 19 era. Methods A theory-based structural equation model will be carried out of activation of norms, that measures variables: sanitary, socioeconomic and security. Precisely, we will measure how those three attributes affect the managers and guests' health in rural areas and their search for happiness at the destination. Based on the above, a field of study has been 215 rural tourist accommodations in the Extremadura region (Spain) and a sample population of 443 guests. Data were organised through the SEM-PLS path modelling Results The results achieved statistically show the need to undertake a new model of healthier and safer tourism consumption that values the tourist resources of rural areas, especially nearby and sustainable destinations, based on the guiding principles of safety, health, and happiness. Conclusions The first conclusion is that promoting tourist destinations under safe and healthy conditions has become a priority objective in the tourism industry. The second conclusion that follows from the first is that the variables safety and health and the pursuit of happiness are essential factors in promoting tourist destinations for rural hotel managers and rural tourists. The third conclusion related to the first two is that the opportunity that this study provides to develop strategies of an innovative, sustainable, and creative nature based on the relationships of the new trinomial of health, safety and happiness, from the perspective of happiness management.

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“…Nature tourism, including parks and wildlife tourism, focuses on natural beauty, peace, tranquility, psychological restoration, and recovery. Nature tourism can improve attention, cognition, emotions, relaxation, and worldview (Akhoundogli and Buckley 2021; Buckley 2019b, 2020; Buckley and Westaway 2020, 2021; Cooper and Buckley 2022). Since poor mental health has high economic costs, parks and nature tourism have an economic value through tourist mental health, ~US$6 trillion p.a.…”

Section: Mental Health Research In Different Tourism Subsectorsmentioning

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Tourism and Mental Health: Foundations, Frameworks, and Futures

Buckley

2022

Journal of Travel Research

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Tourism contributes to mental health. We could: recognize, measure, value, and market those contributions; analyze components and design products to maximize mental health benefits; and use mental health benefits in tourism industry marketing and lobbying. If we measure benefits to health-research standards, then tourism could also gain commercial opportunities within the health sector. Currently, there are widely differing bodies of evidence within different tourism subsectors, reflecting historical research emphases. Music, museums, and shopping malls have been identified as therapeutic for some. Nature tourism therapies have been tested extensively, with a higher standard of evidence. Adventure tourism has been analyzed principally from a phenomenological perspective, indicating powerful psychological effects. Many mental health therapies require continuing behavioral change. Tourism research could contribute to these therapies, since it includes detailed data on the effects of program design and guiding, and individual personalities, interests, capabilities, motivations, experiences, emotions, and satisfaction.

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Outdoor tourism to escape social surveillance: health gains but sustainability costs

Cited by 12 publications

References 119 publications

The impact of eudaimonic well-being on experience and loyalty: a tourism context

The impact of eudaimonic well-being on experience and loyalty: a tourism context

The trinomial health, safety and happiness promote rural tourism.

Tourism and Mental Health: Foundations, Frameworks, and Futures

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