Working Holiday Tourist Learning: Scale Development and Validation

Do people who travel more perform better at work?

“…Based on Kolb's () experiential learning theory, it may be possible to shed light on the learning outcomes of travel. Several studies have found that different types of travel, such as studying abroad (e.g., Bachner & Zeutschel, ; Coryell, ), backpacking (Pearce & Foster, ), working holidays (Tsaur & Huang, ), and international journeys (Stone & Petrick, ), create opportunities to acquire new skills. More recently, Stone and Petrick () investigated how domestic travel influenced learning, suggesting that domestic trips provide educational benefits including content knowledge, practical abilities, interpersonal capacities, and individual growth.…”

Differential roles of push and pull factors on escape for travel: Personal and social identity perspectives

“…Other researchers (e.g. Chen et al, 2014;Chen & Huang, 2017;Ho et al, 2014) found that escape motivation for backpackers, volunteers, and those who take working holidays may also be triggered by the need to experience and interact with a different culture to develop a personal identity associated with improving self-confidence, abilities, and better emotion management (Tsaur & Huang, 2016).…”

Beyond traveling and working: Place attachment of the Chinese local working tourists

“…The rise in such practices has been accompanied by a growing body of literature focused on understanding the motivations and/or lifestyle of working travelers (e.g. Clarke, 2004; Tsaur and Huang, 2016) as well as the working holiday programs (e.g. Howe et al, 2018).…”

“…Existing studies on working tourists in different contexts are constrained to overseas working holiday experience (e.g. Clarke, 2004; Tsaur and Huang, 2016; Uriely, 2001; Wilson et al, 2009) and few studies have focused on working tourists traveled domestically. Moreover, youths from developed countries such as the United States, Australia, and European countries as the main force of the global working tourists have drawn most of the researchers’ attention (Clarke, 2004).…”