Positive Tourism

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.

• Lists of figuresList of tablesList of contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Part I: Positive Tourism What is Positive Tourism? Why Do We Need It?Sebastian Filep, Jennifer Laing and Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiPart II: Positive Tourist Experiences Meaningful Vacation ExperiencesJan 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 ExperiencesXavier Matteucci Dark Tourism and Dark Events: A Journey to Positive Resolution and Well-BeingJennifer Laing and Warwick Frost The Role of Humour in Contributing to Tourism ExperiencesAnja Pabel Employing Hedonia and Eudaimonia to Explore Differences Between Three Groups of Wellness Tourists on the Experiential, the Motivational and the Global LevelCornelia Voigt Why Do We Travel? A Positive Psychological Model for Travel MotivationMihaly Csikszentmihalyi and John CoffeyPart III: Positive Host Communities Examining Kindness of Strangers in Tourism: Trail Magic on the Appalachian TrailTroy Glover and Sebastian Filep The Impact of Tourism on the Quality of Life of Local Industry Employees in Ubud, BaliPeita Hillman, Brent D. Moyle, Betty Weiler and Deborah ChePart IV: Positive Tourism Workers Transformative Guiding and Long-Distance WalkingRobert Saunders, Betty Weiler and Jennifer Laing Co-creation and Experience Brokering in Guided Adventure Tours Susan Houge Mackenzie and John KerrPart V: Conclusions and Future Directions Synthesising Positive TourismSebastian Filep, Jennifer Laing and Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiIndex

"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