THE HAPPINESS FACTOR IN TOURISM: SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING AND SOCIAL TOURISM

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• 作者：Scott McCabe ^{scott.mccabe@nottingham.ac.uk}Author Vitae
• 关键词：subjective well-being ; quality of life ; happiness ; holidays ; social tourism
• 刊名：Annals of Tourism Research
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：April, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：41
• 期：Complete
• 页码：42-65
• 全文大小：206 K

文摘

New research is emerging on the relationships between tourism and quality of life (QOL) and subjective well-being (SWB). This paper develops a measure of SWB and reports findings from a two-step survey that measured changes in well-being amongst low-income individuals who had received financial support to access a holiday break (¡®social tourists¡¯). This is the first study to assess well-being amongst social tourists. The findings indicate that tourism contributes to social tourist¡¯s well-being. There are greater effects in some areas including psychological resources, leisure and family life domains contributing to social well-being. Social tourists have lower levels of SWB than the general population. Further studies are needed to compare tourism¡¯s contribution to SWB amongst mainstream tourists.