What Does Vacation do to our Family? Contrasting the Perspectives of Parents and Children

Fu, Xiaoxiao; Lehto, Xinran; Park, Oun-Joung

doi:10.1080/10548408.2014.883350

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“…The over-emphasis on learning research can obscure the more personal, social, aesthetic and subjective dimensions inherent to museum experiences. Indeed, learning is only one aspect of any form of family tourism post-trip reflection (Fu, Lehto, & Park, 2014). Indeed, learning is only one aspect of any form of family tourism post-trip reflection (Fu, Lehto, & Park, 2014).…”

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“…The creative and innovative displays in the museums A review of the evolution of museums suggested a significant transformation has occurred: collection-based museums have decreased, while museums have attempted to offer more experiencebased exhibition spaces to visitors (Fu, Lehto, & Park, 2014). Museums have changed their offerings from static to interactive, where displayed objects can be touched or manipulated.…”

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Visiting heritage museums with children: Chinese parents’ motivations

Wall

2016

Journal of Heritage Tourism

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Museums have been widely considered as informal educational sites. Studies about families in museums heavily concentrate on the cognitive aspects and the learning outcomes in science museums and art galleries. Compared with previous research, this study emphasizes four distinctive themes: a focus on the pre-trip stage of the museum visit, museums depicting local heritage, a Chinese context, and attention to social and cultural issues. In detail, this study explores the motivations of Chinese parents who take their children to a cluster of heritage museums at the southern end of China's Grand Canal, a newly designated world heritage site in Hangzhou. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with parents visiting the museums with their children. It was found that the key push factors include education and learning, relaxation, creating positive experience for children, relationship enhancement (quality time with children) and extended family obligations. Free admission, the innovative displays, the opportunities for personal interaction and the quality of the environment both within and surrounding the museums were important pull factors. The family market, particularly the extended family, may be particularly important in China given their importance in Chinese culture based on Confucian teaching. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Visiting heritage museums with children: Chinese parents’ motivations

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2016

Journal of Heritage Tourism

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“…Leisure as a context for family members to maintain and develop relationships with each other has been studied (Siegenthaler and O’Dell 2000). With regard to vacations, a number of researchers have investigated individuals’ satisfaction levels with their family vacations (Fu, Lehto, and Park 2014). According to Schänzel, Smith, and Weaver (2005), the two main streams of family vacation research have been (a) conceptualizing family members as consumers or purchasers and studying their decision-making behavior and (b) market research undertaken by different sectors of the tourism industry such as the attractions and the transportation sectors.…”

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“…In studies of travel as a leisure behavior, the unit of analysis has typically been individuals, not couples or families (Chen, Lehto, and Cai 2013). Ignoring the experiences of different family members and their combined impact on the individual vacation experience has likely influenced scholars’ understanding of the contribution of vacations to family functioning (Schänzel and Smith 2014; West and Merriam 2009; Fu, Lehto, and Park 2014). This study hopes to extend existing travel and tourism research by examining dyads’ perception of vacation and relationships separately, resulting in a more in-depth portrayal of the role vacationing together may play in each couple’s relationship.…”

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The Contribution of Vacationing Together to Couple Functioning

Shahvali

Kerstetter

Townsend

2019

Journal of Travel Research

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Informed by the Core and Balance Model of Family Leisure Functioning, we investigated the contribution of one type of family leisure—couple vacations—in enhancing couples’ cohesion and flexibility (i.e., functioning). Studying dyadic data from 112 couples (224 individuals) from across the United States of America, results of multilevel models showed that the variable “shared experiences during vacations” was positively associated with couples’ day-to-day functioning at home. Couples who engaged in higher levels of shared experiences during their vacations, such as effective communication, showing affection, or experiencing new things together, reported higher levels of couple flexibility and cohesion following their vacations, regardless of the number of vacations. We discuss the implications of these results for couples who spend quality time together away from home, as well as future use of our study model when examining benefits of vacationing for families.

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“…Although broader discussions on masculinities and gender relations in leisure and tourism are emerging (Lyons, 2006;Pringle, Kay, & Jenkins, 2011;Thurnell-Read & Casey, 2014), fathers are largely invisible apart from their joint parenting voice (Fu, Lehto, & Park, 2014;Gram, 2005;Shaw et al, 2008), or are presented in comparison with mothers, from a women's perspective (Anderson, 2001). Recognition of the intersection between the gender roles of mothers and fathers in leisure travel research, and their femininities and masculinities, or 'true gender research', represents a significant research gap (Schänzel & Smith, 2011).…”

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Non-resident fathers’ holidays alone with their children: experiences, meanings and fatherhood

Schänzel

Jenkins

2016

World Leisure Journal

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fatherhoodResearch on family holiday experiences is largely informed by feminist gender representations. True gender scholarship requires a critical appraisal of gender relations that is inclusive of the male voice in family tourism. This exploratory study extends previous research into separated families and their leisure experiences. Our research focuses on the experiences of non-resident fathers who holiday alone with their children and the meanings of these experiences for those fathers. The study is interpretive and informed by a grounded theory analysis of eight semi-structured interviews with non-resident fathers living in Auckland, New Zealand. Our findings reveal the importance of family holidays to family leisure for separated families and for non-resident fathers' relationships with their children. Leisure-based holidays shared with their children are special times for these non-resident fathers to have fun, to teach skills and negotiate values, to explore the meanings of their lives, to (re)build and maintain family relations, and to experience fatherhood.

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What Does Vacation do to our Family? Contrasting the Perspectives of Parents and Children

Cited by 41 publications

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Visiting heritage museums with children: Chinese parents’ motivations

Visiting heritage museums with children: Chinese parents’ motivations

The Contribution of Vacationing Together to Couple Functioning

Non-resident fathers’ holidays alone with their children: experiences, meanings and fatherhood

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