The perceived effects of holiday‐taking upon the health and wellbeing of patients treated for cancer

Hunter-Jones, Philippa

doi:10.1002/jtr.427

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“…Researchers have commonly found that taking a holiday is beneficial to tourists' SWB. In a qualitative study, Hunter-Jones (2003) showed vacation's positive effects on such aspects as personal health, social effectiveness, personal identity, and sense of independence among a group of cancer patients. Sirgy, Kruger, Lee, and Yu (2011) argued that sources of positive and negative affects associated with specific travel experiences played a significant role in tourists' overall sense of well-being.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Chinese Tourist Vacation Satisfaction and Subjective Well-being

Chen

Lehto

2014

Applied Research Quality Life

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While the effects of vacation on tourists have been frequently discussed in the Western context, research endeavors to understand such effects in a non-Western context are rather limited. The current study aimed at investigating Chinese tourists' subjective well-being and its potential changes associated with vacation experiences. The survey of 302 Chinese tourists confirmed the positive effect of satisfaction with service aspects of travel/tourism phases on satisfaction with travel/tourism services, the positive effect of trip reflections and satisfaction with travel/tourism services on satisfaction with travel experiences, and the direct positive effect of satisfaction with travel experiences on travelers' SWB. This study further explored the corresponding roles of travel duration and frequency. The results suggested a moderating effect of vacation duration on the link between tourist satisfaction and SWB; vacation frequency did not have such an effect. Theoretical and managerial implications of the findings were discussed, followed by recommendations for future research.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Chinese Tourist Vacation Satisfaction and Subjective Well-being

Chen

Lehto

2014

Applied Research Quality Life

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“…The provision of supportive space for personal development could be seen to be a part of a healthy variety of environments necessary for human well-being in an otherwise commercially pressurised and highly technological consumer society. Such benefi ts are likely to be impaired if the museum experience is designed as just another everyday consumption process within that society (Fennel and Butler, 2003;Hunter-Jones, 2003;McIntyre, 2007). The commodifi cation of culture into a form of mass-market entertainment, spectacle or show to be consumed as part of a leisure world within a post-modern perspective would also appear to confl ict with recent experiential marketing design concepts where customisation rather than commodifi cation is apparently the sought-after quality and personal transformation is the most powerful motive that people seek to achieve through experiences (Pine and Gilmore, 1999).…”

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Museum and art gallery experience space characteristics: an entertaining show or a contemplative bathe?

McIntyre

2009

Journal of Tourism Research

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This paper considers some of the fi ndings of a longitudinal research project undertaken to investigate the perceptions and attitudes surrounding museum/art gallery visits and their desired characteristics. The work centred largely upon a major relaunch, design and development project of a combined museum and art gallery on the South Coast of England. Over the course of a number of years, the project broadened to allow the investigation of dimensions of the adult tourist's experience of museum and gallery visits.The desired experience in cultural presentations and visitation spaces was found to be focused upon internal selflearning through time and space consideration, involving processes of dimensional imagining, personal refl ection and heuristic self-discourse while becoming 'time and space dreamers'. An immersive, enabling and supporting environment and fl ow of differential space elements, or spacescape mix, for this experience was found to be essential for the desired outcomes.A suitable balance of different types of space was a perceived necessity of cultural visitation events for adults and groups involving adults, including a humanistic form of 'warm' space for the central desired adult object-related transformation experience, complemented by 'cool' space to allow refl ection, consideration and relaxation. Acting in a form of tourist-visitor role, visitors were found to have a desire for space to 'bathe-in' and 'soak-up' a form of experiential learning in proximity to culturally signifi cant objects, information and spaces of implied socio-cultural and local signifi cance.

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“…Literature documenting the relationship between health and holiday taking in general is fragmented. Drawing together earlier papers, Hunter‐Jones (2003) highlights the bias towards detailing the health consequences of travel, such as travel‐related illnesses, accidents and injuries for instance. In contrast, people travelling with pre‐existing conditions are seldom covered.…”

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“…Indeed, from a consumer perspective, holidays can provide many benefits to somebody with ill‐health. Examining the perceived effects of holiday taking upon patients treated for cancer, for instance, Hunter‐Jones (2003) identified four areas of contribution: personal health (psychological and physical), social effectiveness, personal identity and regaining independence, areas likely also to be a feature of senior tourism.…”

Section: Health and Holiday Takingmentioning

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Understanding the relationship between holiday taking and self‐assessed health: an exploratory study of senior tourism

Hunter-Jones

Blackburn

2007

Int J Consumer Studies

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The senior market is particularly attractive to the tourism industry. Alongside evidence of a growing propensity to travel and spend, consumption is often deliberately linked to low seasons, balancing out the peaks and valleys for tourism suppliers. Health is one variable which is particularly significant to this consumer. Personal health influences all patterns of consumer behaviour regardless of age, although the full extent to which this models senior tourism activity is unclear. An exploratory qualitative study was undertaken in the spring of 2005, with 22 senior consumers (aged 55 years plus) interviewed. Utilizing the earlier work by Zimmer et al.into self‐assessed health as a framework, travel propensity, the perceived effects of travel and factors inhibiting full participation were questioned. Conclusions drawn outline both a senior tourism typology and areas for future research. Notably the relationship between caregiving and tourism consumption is singled out for further investigation.

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The perceived effects of holiday‐taking upon the health and wellbeing of patients treated for cancer

Cited by 38 publications

References 10 publications

Chinese Tourist Vacation Satisfaction and Subjective Well-being

Chinese Tourist Vacation Satisfaction and Subjective Well-being

Museum and art gallery experience space characteristics: an entertaining show or a contemplative bathe?

Understanding the relationship between holiday taking and self‐assessed health: an exploratory study of senior tourism

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