On the importance of leisure travel for psychosocial wellbeing

Andreas H. Zins and Ivo Ponocny

Annals of Tourism Research, 2022, vol. 93, issue C

Abstract: As psychosocial wellbeing includes a variety of hedonic and eudaimonic aspects, findings on the wellbeing impacts of tourism can vary from negligible to substantial, depending on the research approach. The present study demonstrates this complexity by analyzing 508 qualitative interviews in Austria to identify the spontaneously mentioned travel-related wellbeing statements contained within. Our analysis shows that holiday trips serve a variety of purposes, including long-term effects of both hedonic and eudaimonic travel experience, and – less prominent in the literature – the importance of meeting travel aspirations. Future scientific or practical investigations into the wellbeing impacts of travel need to consider this variety and, consequently, seek to mitigate conceptual framing effects.

Keywords: Hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing; Chronic psychosocial wellbeing; Narrative interviews; Travel aspirations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2022.103378

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