Vacationers Happier, but Most not Happier After a Holiday

Nawijn, Jeroen; Marchand, Miquelle A. G.; Veenhoven, Ruut; Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M.

doi:10.1007/s11482-009-9091-9

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“…The results, Z=-3,510, p=0,000 (positive physical effects) and Z=-4,222, p=0,000 (positive psychological effects) mean that there is statistically significant difference between the two subsamples (S1w,S2w) in terms of the length of positive physical and psychological effects of a vacation. In spite of the statistical difference between the two subsamples, the mean fade-out values support earlier literature on fade-out of positive vacation effects (Nawijn, Miquelle, Marchand, Veenhoven, & Vingerhoets, 2010, Kühnel & Sonnentag, 2011, De Bloom, Radstaak, & Geurts, 2013 and raise serious doubts about how much traditional tourism products in general and especially in Hungary can actually contribute to improving physical and psychological health of the population. Although happiness (subjective wellbeing) is positively correlated with good health (Veenhoven, 2007, Boehm & Kubzansky, 2012, Sabatini, 2014, because of the very short fade-out period tourism's effect is very limited, if any at al.…”

Section: Fade-out Period Of Positive Physical and Psychological Effectssupporting

confidence: 78%

“…Even if a small positive correlation has been confirmed, vacations do not have a lasting effect on wellbeing. The fade-out period can be a few days (De Bloom, Radstaak, & Geurts, 2014) and 2-4 weeks in other studies (Nawijn, Miquelle, Marchand, Veenhoven, & Vingerhoets, 2010, Kühnel & Sonnentag, 2011. The present paper gives new empirical evidence of the fast fade-out of both positive physical and psychological effects of holidays.…”

Section: Tourism and Wellbeingsupporting

confidence: 52%

“…Although leisure travel has been found to have a positive effect on life satisfaction and happiness in both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies (Puczkó & Smith 2001, Gilbert & Abdullah, 2004, Nawijn, Miquelle, Marchand, Veenhoven, & Vingerhoets, 2010, Michalkó, Kiss, Kovács, & Sulyok, 2009, Veenhoven, 2011 as Nawijn points out in his study " Still, it is not established that this correlation is due to an effect of holiday trips on happiness or an effect of happiness on holiday-taking." (Nawijn, 2012: 37).…”

Section: Tourism and Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Mindfulness and Sustainability: Utilizing the Tourism Context

Lengyel¹

2015

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After several decades of sustainability efforts humanity is still on track to worst-case climate scenario. Other planetary boundaries have also been transgressed. The symptoms point to a root cause termed by many as a crisis of perception and value system. Our consumption-oriented world view is unsustainable. What can catalyze a perceptual paradigm shift needed to avoid global socio-ecological collapse in the long-run? Besides its manifold beneficial effects tested clinically, mindfulness has been found to be positively correlated with sustainable behavior. The article gives a theoretical grounding of mindfulness highlighting some new aspects and argues that the tourism context serves as an exceptionally suitable medium for learning mindfulness techniques. Expanding on earlier openness to new experience and Google Trends research of the author it is demonstrated that tourists have a markedly raised level of openness to new experience and also that there is a strong demand side business case for developing more mindfulness-based tourism products both globally and specifically for Hungary. The study provides further evidence of the short fade-out period of positive vacation effects and shows what type of destinations and accommodations potential wellness and ecotourists consider best for learning mindfulness.

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Section: Fade-out Period Of Positive Physical and Psychological Effectssupporting

confidence: 78%

Section: Tourism and Wellbeingsupporting

confidence: 52%

Section: Tourism and Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 98%

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2015

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“…The baseline measure of H&W (Pre) was scheduled 2 weeks prior to vacation, because measurements immediately before vacation may be biased either looking forward to vacation (Gilbert and Abdullah 2002;Nawijn et al 2010) and/or pre-vacation work stress (DeFrank et al 2000;Westman 2005).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vacation (after-) effects on employee health and well-being, and the role of vacation activities, experiences and sleep

2012

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Most vacations seem to have strong, but rather short-lived effects on health and well-being (H&W). However, the recovery-potential of relatively long vacations and the underlying processes have been disregarded. Therefore, our study focused on vacations longer than 14 days and on the psychological processes associated with such a long respite from work. In the present study, we investigated (1) how health and well-being (H&W) develop during and after a long summer vacation, (2) whether changes in H&W during and after vacation relate to vacation activities and experiences and (3) whether changes in H&W during and after vacation relate to sleep. Fifty-four employees reported their H&W before, three or four times during and five times after vacation. Vacations lasted 23 days on average. Information on vacation experiences, work-related activities and sleep was collected during vacation. Vacation activities were assessed immediately after vacation. H&W increased quickly during vacation, peaked on the eighth vacation day and had rapidly returned to baseline level within the first week of work resumption. Vacation duration and most vacation activities were only weakly associated with H&W changes during and after vacation. Engagement in passive activities, savoring, pleasure derived from activities, relaxation, control and sleep showed strong relations with improved H&W during and to a lesser degree after vacation. In conclusion, H&W improved during long summer vacations, but this positive effect was short-lived. Vacation experiences, especially pleasure, relaxation, savoring and control, seem to be especially important for the strength and persistence of vacation (after-) effects.

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“…Recent research has mostly supported the direct way in which vacationing adds to individuals' happiness (Boelhouwer & Stoop, 1999;De Bloom et al, 2010;Hagger, 2009;Nawijn, 2010;Nawijn, 2011b;Nawijn, Marchand, Veenhoven, & Vingerhoets, 2010). For instance, people who had recently had a holiday trip score higher on overall happiness than those who did not (Boelhouwer & Stoop, 1999), which supports the afterglow hypothesis.…”

Section: Leisure Travelmentioning

confidence: 90%