Diaspora tourism and well-being over life-courses

Tingting Elle Li and Eric Tak Hin Chan

Annals of Tourism Research, 2020, vol. 82, issue C

Abstract: This research reconceptualises the linkages between tourism and well-being by considering well-being as dynamic assemblages that exist dependent on performative impacts of place, age, time, and contextual events. Adopting a biographical approach, we examined life histories of 26 Chinese migrants, and explored how diasporic return shaped their subjective well-being over life-courses. Based on their own articulations of home return experiences, meanings, feelings, and life purposes, four patterns of how the effects of diaspora tourism change over life-courses were identified, depending on individual's early exposures to home place and culture, age of first and later return, change of life purposes and conceptions of well-being. The findings encourage further debates over temporal variability in possible linkages between tourism and subjective well-being.

Keywords: Diaspora tourism; Subjective well-being; Life-course; Biographical approach; Chinese migrants; Assemblage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2020.102917

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