Mixed feelings?: fluctuations in well-being during tourist travels

Verônica Feder Mayer, Juliane dos Santos Machado, Osiris Marques and José Mauro Gonçalves Nunes

The Service Industries Journal, 2020, vol. 40, issue 1-2, 158-180

Abstract: The search for practices that increase people's well-being has expanded significantly in recent years. This can be seen in the tourism sector, since leisure travel is generally considered a promoter of well-being. Positive feelings are not the only ones to permeate the events of a trip, however, and travel is not simply a source of well-being. This work seeks to contribute to the literature by investigating how tourists’ subjective well-being varies over the course of a trip; how these variations are related to different events and what connections exist among these events; and what the main factors are that lead to the positive and negative variations of well-being reported by tourists and observed in their behavior. A multimethod research approach was adopted, combining participant observation with self-reported assessments. The results made it possible to identify the main promoters and reducers of well-being throughout a trip.

Date: 2020
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