Re-evaluating well-being outcomes of social tourism: Evidence from Finland

Vento, Elli; Tammi, Timo; McCabe, Scott; Komppula, Raija

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2020.103085

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“…Research results support the idea that holidays play an important role in ensuring equality for disadvantage people, providing them a sense of feeling included in society [38,44]. Apart from the need for social inclusion, recent findings demonstrate various psychological benefits such as increased self-esteem and positive changes in job research-related behaviour [45], quality of life [46] and wellbeing [44,[47][48][49], overall functioning [48] and family and social capital [49,50]. Moreover, using qualitative data, Kakoudakis et al [45] highlighted the fundamental role played by the holiday environment, through creating enabling conditions and safe spaces, triggering positive cognitive and behavioural changes.…”

Section: Social Tourism and Social Inclusionsupporting

confidence: 62%

“…The core value of social tourism stems from the idea that "having a break from daily life (and problems) contributes to good health" [43]. Research results support the idea that holidays play an important role in ensuring equality for disadvantage people, providing them a sense of feeling included in society [38,44]. Apart from the need for social inclusion, recent findings demonstrate various psychological benefits such as increased self-esteem and positive changes in job research-related behaviour [45], quality of life [46] and wellbeing [44,[47][48][49], overall functioning [48] and family and social capital [49,50].…”

Section: Social Tourism and Social Inclusionmentioning

confidence: 80%

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Romanian Holiday Vouchers: A Chance to Travel for Low-Income Employees or an Instrument to Boost the Tourism Industry?

Alba

Popescu

2023

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Holiday vouchers are a tool that have been used for 40 years to encourage employees’ access to vacation and have been highlighted during the recent pandemic, when governments used them to support the tourism industry. Using a naturalistic inquiry that combined focus groups with workers from travel agencies and semi-structured interviews with tourists, we analysed the influence of the Romanian holiday voucher scheme on the tourist behaviour of employees in order to establish the holiday vouchers’ usefulness as a tool in social tourism or for the development of the tourism industry. An overwhelming share of the interviewees considered the granting of holiday vouchers beneficial. First and foremost, holiday vouchers enabled some people with blue-collar jobs to have their first holiday in decades. Secondly, vouchers influenced tourist behaviour mainly in terms of destination choice, services purchased and holiday frequency and/or duration. Moreover, for the past couple of years when there were major events with impacts on the entire economy worldwide, holiday vouchers proved to be a lifesaver for the Romanian tourism industry.

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Section: Social Tourism and Social Inclusionsupporting

confidence: 62%

Section: Social Tourism and Social Inclusionmentioning

confidence: 80%

Romanian Holiday Vouchers: A Chance to Travel for Low-Income Employees or an Instrument to Boost the Tourism Industry?

Alba

Popescu

2023

Sustainability

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“…Self-efficacy was measured using seven items taken from Kakoudakis et al (2017). To measure family intimacy, four items from Fok et al (2014) and Vento et al (2020) were adopted. Travel satisfaction was measured using three items adapted from Yoon and Uysal (2005).…”

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confidence: 99%

Adult children traveling with parents: exploring travel conflict and parents’ subjective well-being

Zhang

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Purpose Drawing on solidarity-conflict model, expectancy disconfirmation theory and bottom-up spillover theory, this study aims to explore how intergenerational conflict is linked to parents’ subjective well-being through the serial mediating effects of family intimacy and travel satisfaction, self-efficacy and travel satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach Based on a survey of 411 senior parents who have family travel experience, a structural equation modeling was performed to test the hypotheses. Findings This study demonstrated the negative impacts of intergenerational conflict on parents’ travel satisfaction and subjective well-being and further reveals two serial mediators through individual level and family level (i.e. self-efficacy → travel satisfaction; family intimacy → travel satisfaction). Practical implications The findings of this research generate valuable practical implications for family members and destination organizations. Adult children should consider different generations’ needs to choose tourism products, help parents reduce tension and negative emotions about unusual environments and build confidence. The destination organizations need to design family interaction projects with a sense of rituals to enhance family intimacy. Originality/value This study focusing on the intergenerational conflict of adult children traveling with parents, empirically examines the negative impacts of intergenerational conflict on parents’ subjective well-being, uncovers the detrimental effects of family travel; it breaks the stereotype that family travel is always full of joy, enriching research on intergenerational relationships and family travel.

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“…Risk perception theory and tourism happiness theory are two theories with low correlation. However, the SPPI discussed in this paper can be classified as psychological risk in the risk perception theory, while the TH in this paper belongs to the positive emotion in the tourism happiness theory [105][106][107]. Therefore, risk perception theory and subjective wellbeing theory are suitable for use in explaining the influencing mechanism of SPPI on TH.…”

Section: Risk Perception Theory and Subjective Wellbeing Theorymentioning

confidence: 97%

Research on the Influencing Mechanism via Which Security Perception of Personal Information Affects Tourist Happiness: A Moderated Mediation Model

Zhang

Chen

2022

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Due to the continuous advancement of smart tourism and the improvement of tourists’ security perception of personal information (SPPI), SPPI has become an important factor affecting tourist happiness (TH). However, few studies have been conducted on the influencing mechanism via which SPPI affects TH. According to the risk perception theory and subjective wellbeing theory, the following conclusions were drawn from mixed methods research: (1) SPPI has a significant direct effect on TH; (2) SPPI has a significant indirect effect on TH through the perception of smart tourism application (PSTA); (3) the perception of smart tourism technology (PSTT) does not have a significant moderating effect between SPPI and PSTA or between PSTA and TH, but has a significant moderating effect between SPPI and TH. The discussion of this mechanism can not only promote the combined development of the two theories but also remind destinations or scenic spots to focus on improving tourists’ SPPI when developing smart tourism.

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Re-evaluating well-being outcomes of social tourism: Evidence from Finland

Cited by 12 publications

References 35 publications

Romanian Holiday Vouchers: A Chance to Travel for Low-Income Employees or an Instrument to Boost the Tourism Industry?

Romanian Holiday Vouchers: A Chance to Travel for Low-Income Employees or an Instrument to Boost the Tourism Industry?

Adult children traveling with parents: exploring travel conflict and parents’ subjective well-being

Research on the Influencing Mechanism via Which Security Perception of Personal Information Affects Tourist Happiness: A Moderated Mediation Model

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