Lists of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Part I: Positive Tourism

What is Positive Tourism? Why Do We Need It?

Sebastian Filep, Jennifer Laing and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Part II: Positive Tourist Experiences

Meaningful Vacation Experiences

Jan Packer and Chelsea Gill

Tourism and Love: How Do Tourist Experiences Affect Romantic Relationships?

Jessica de Bloom, Sabine Geurts and Martin Lohmann

Tourists’ Accounts of Learning and Positive Emotions Through Sensory Experiences

Xavier Matteucci

Dark Tourism and Dark Events: A Journey to Positive Resolution and Well-Being

Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost

The Role of Humour in Contributing to Tourism Experiences

Anja Pabel

Employing Hedonia and Eudaimonia to Explore Differences Between Three Groups of Wellness Tourists on the Experiential, the Motivational and the Global Level

Cornelia Voigt

Why Do We Travel? A Positive Psychological Model for Travel Motivation

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and John Coffey

Part III: Positive Host Communities

Examining Kindness of Strangers in Tourism: Trail Magic on the Appalachian Trail

Troy Glover and Sebastian Filep

The Impact of Tourism on the Quality of Life of Local Industry Employees in Ubud, Bali

Peita Hillman, Brent D. Moyle, Betty Weiler and Deborah Che

Part IV: Positive Tourism Workers

Transformative Guiding and Long-Distance Walking

Robert Saunders, Betty Weiler and Jennifer Laing

Co-creation and Experience Brokering in Guided Adventure Tours

Susan Houge Mackenzie and John Kerr

Part V: Conclusions and Future Directions

Synthesising Positive Tourism

Sebastian Filep, Jennifer Laing and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Index

About the Author

Sebastian Filep is Senior Lecturer at the Tourism Department, University of Otago, New Zealand. He specialises in tourism and well-being research. He has published internationally in peer-reviewed academic journals and books on the topic of human well-being.

Jennifer Laing is Associate Professor in Management in the Department of Management and Marketing, La Trobe University, Australia. Her research interests include extraordinary tourist experiences, the role of events in society, travel narratives and wellness tourism. She has co-written five and edited two books on tourism and/or events.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management and Founding Co-Director of the Quality of Life Research Centre, Claremont Graduate University, USA. He is noted for his work on happiness, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow.

Reviews

"In conclusion, this well written edited book achieves to further knowledge on optimal tourist experiences but more importantly has started documenting research on worker well-being and host-community well-being through the lens of positive psychology... the value of this book, particularly for researchers, lies as much in what is presented making an original contribution to knowledge as in highlighting what is missing or where our attention in tourism research should be."Heike Schänzel, School of Hospitality & Tourism, Auckland University of Technology

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