Tourist Experience and Fulfilment

Sebastian Filep, PhD, is Honorary Research Fellow, Victoria University, Australia and Lecturer at the Department of Tourism, University of Otago, New Zealand. Dr Filep is a co-author of Tourists, Tourism and the Good Life (Routledge, 2011) and a co-author of Vacation Rules, a popular market e-book.Philip Pearce, PhD, is Foundation Professor of Tourism at James Cook University, Australia. He has published a number of books in tourism including two sole author works on tourist behaviour in 2005 and 2011.

• 1. Introducing Tourist Experience and Fulfilment Research Part 1: Happiness and Humour 2. Humour, Tourism and Positive Psychology 3. Walking the Talk: Positive Effects of Work-Related Travel on Tourism Academics 4. Travel as a Factor of Happiness in Hungary 5. Tourism, Wellness and Feeling Good: Reviewing and Studying Asian Spa Experiences Part 2: Meaning and Self-actualisation 6. Meaning Making, Life Transitional Experiences and Personal Well-Being Within the Contexts of Religious and Spiritual Travel 7. Experiencing Flamenco: An Examination of a Spiritual Journey 8. Personal Transformation Through Long-Distance Walking 9. The Development of Self Through Volunteer Tourism Part 3: Health and Restoration 10. How Does a Vacation from Work Affect Tourists’ Health and Well-Being? 11. Anticipating a Flourishing Future with Tourism Experiences 12. Visitors’ Restorative Experiences in Museum and Botanic Garden Environments 13. A Blueprint for Tourist Experience and Fulfilment Research

"Overall, this is an easy-to-read book that provides a rich set of both theoretical background and empirical evidence of the multidimensional concept of tourist experience. The book adopts a positive psychological approach to explore the concept and provides findings from numerous types and forms of tourists and tourist activities to support its arguments. In this vein, books exploring tourism experiences from a ‘negative’ or other approach nicely complement this book, e.g. books on dark tourism and/or adventure tourism. The book constitutes a very useful reading for researchers-academics, students, professionals and policy makers involved and interested in creating and managing tourist experiences."– Marianna Sigala, University of the Aegean, published in Tourism Management