Self-love emotion as a novel type of love for tourism destinations

Representing and evaluating the travel motivations of Pacific islanders

“…The model of the Travel Career Ladder (TLC) and its subsequent modifications described travel motivation through different levels of needs aligned with a traveller's experience or ‘career’ in travelling (Pearce, 1988; Pearce & Lee, 2005; Song & Bae, 2018). Therefore, it is argued that the desire to travel is fundamentally associated with personal and individual gain (Pearce & Caltabiano, 1983), and likened to a desire for self‐completion through a quest for the mind, body and spirit to be replenished through the touristic process (Jafari, 1987; Lykoudi et al, 2020).…”

Calibrating Evolution of Transformative Tourism: A Bibliometric Analysis

“…Even though Mezirow's theory [11] has been a mainstay in the TT scene, Taylor (1997) pointed out the lack of feelings and emotions in his theory [35], therefore academics have slowly started to introduce the role of emotions in transformation [36][37][38] as tourism, transformation and emotions are closely related [63]. Through cognitive (thoughts and beliefs) and affective (emotional reactions) stimulation to a meaningful experience, consumers transform both themselves and the actions they take [6], therefore being precursors to the transformative power of the experience [128].…”

“…Similar to "peak experiences", there are once in a lifetime experiences that alter the ego, mind and body with an intensity experienced during these moments by individuals both physically and emotionally, known as existential hapax [133] that can produce irreversible changes in one's behaviour and worldview. Therefore, further research towards the area of cognition and emotions should be considered [58,69], including bodily feelings and memories that can enrich tourism transformations [133], understand the present and appreciate one's transformation as well as the capacity to lead towards a higher frequency of visits in a particular area [37].…”

“…Main theme articles included research that focused only on the transformative process of tourism, whereas articles classified as having secondary topics related to the transformation process in tourism, met one of the following criteria: (a) the transformation process in tourism was highlighted as one of the outcomes or motivations of the main topic that was not initially thought to be related to transformative tourism; (b) the transformation process in tourism was mentioned or joined to other topics discussed in the article, thus forming connections with other domains. Some of the sub-theme articles included the importance of self-love in tourism as an emotion that could lead to more meaningful and transformative experiences [37], or the linkages to hopeful and social tourism [210][211][212][213], the hero's journey as a tool for advertising transformative experiences [214], transformation as a path towards innovation in tourism [215], the transformative potential of the existential wish to search or manifest a person's values and identity [216], or even an exhaustive research on experiences where there was a light shed on transformative experiences [128]. The current state of balance in topic coverage in TT articles is represented below (Table 12), however, a turnaround is expected in the upcoming years as the focus shifts in the favour of more in-depth analyses on the nature of TT, thus enhancing the main theme literature.…”

“…Several perspectives were introduced, whereas from relying mainly on a tourist's point of view [16,24], continued as a co-creative experience including host perspectives [25][26][27] and even organisations [28,29]. TT has zigzagged from its ability to foster transformation only in extraordinary trips and places [30], to experiencing liminality and therefore transformation even in familiar contexts [31]; from happening purposively [7,32,33] to incidental occurrences of transformation [34]; from pointing out a lack of feelings and emotions in Mezirow's theory [35], to slowly introducing the role of emotions in transformation [36][37][38].…”