Broken but Well: Healing Dimensions of Cultural Tourism Experiences

Daniela Angelina Jelinčić and Ingeborg Matečić
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Daniela Angelina Jelinčić: Institute for Development and International Relations 1, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Ingeborg Matečić: Department of Tourism, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 2, 1-19

Abstract: Wellbeing has been researched in relation to social, wellness, rural, backpacker, senior, wildlife, transformational or transformative tourism or studies exist specifically focusing on wellbeing tourism. Surprisingly enough, there is a void of research focus on wellbeing in cultural tourism, although culture has been considered as having a substantial impact on wellbeing. The research uses the case study of the Museum of Broken Relationships (MBR) in Zagreb, Croatia, under the assumption that MBR experiences have a relevant influence on tourists’ subjective wellbeing. Subjective wellbeing was measured after the visitation using the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (SWEMWBS) and a majority of the respondents experienced moderate to high wellbeing. Furthermore, the research aimed to investigate whether or not there is any difference between cultural and non-cultural tourists’ subjective wellbeing noted after the visitation to the Museum. The results showed that there was no substantial difference between cultural and non-cultural tourists’ subjective wellbeing.

Keywords: culture; cultural tourism; subjective wellbeing; experiences; emotions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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