Understanding tourists' transformative experience: A systematic literature review

Y Zhao, E Agyeiwaah - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Tourism has the potential to trigger lifelong changes through a transformative experience.
However, existing tourists' transformative experience (TE) research has been criticized for …

Spiritual tourism: understandings, perspectives, discernment, and synthesis

PA Christou, K Pericleous, A Singleton - Current Issues in Tourism, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
The prolific and increasing number of academic studies concerned with spiritual tourism
echoes humans' enduring quest for spirituality through travel and the entanglement of many …

[HTML][HTML] The paradox of atmosphere: Tourism, heritage, and urban liveability

D Paiva - Annals of Tourism Research, 2023‏ - Elsevier
This paper discusses the paradox of atmosphere in urban tourism and reflects on how
atmospheric production can become a tool to improve urban liveability. I draw on …

Positive tourism experiences for human transformation: A Horizon 2050 paper

B Neuhofer - Tourism review, 2025‏ - emerald.com
Purpose Through an interdisciplinary lens of positive psychology, this paper aims to explore
positive experiences for human transformation, recognising their potential for a positive …

How to use thematic analysis in qualitative research

PA Christou - Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism, 2022‏ - elgaronline.com
Thematic analysis has received increased attention from the research academic community,
echoing Braun and Clarke's (2006) influential argument of its theoretical accessibility and …

Docents as transformative educators of travelers

J Soulard, E Lundin - Annals of Tourism Research, 2023‏ - Elsevier
While transformative travel research mainly focuses on visitors' perspectives, those of local
volunteers who guide these visitor experiences, such as museum docents, are left …

Thirty years of events-related research (1992–2022): Published works in annals of tourism research and annals of tourism research empirical insights

MB Duignan - Annals of Tourism Research, 2023‏ - Elsevier
This commentary examines how events-related research has and increasingly contributes to
tourism studies, and how these lines of argument have evolved over the last thirty years …

“Atmosphere”-the what? The where? And the how?: Launching the annals of tourism research curated collection on atmosphere 2023

C Goulding - Annals of Tourism Research, 2023‏ - Elsevier
This paper explores the complex phenomenon of atmosphere. More specifically, how
atmosphere (s) is produced and consumed in the context of tourism. Interdisciplinary in …

Travel while working remotely: A topological data analysis of well-being in remote work trip experiences

E Chevtaeva, B Neuhofer, R Egger… - Journal of Travel …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The proliferation of novel work arrangements, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has
led to the emergence of remote work trip experiences in which work is conducted within the …

Digital cultural tourism: older adults' acceptance and use of digital cultural tourism services

A Tuomi, E Moreira Kares… - Scandinavian Journal of …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
Physiological and psychological constraints, eg increased risk of serious illness or
loneliness imposed by mobility restrictions, make older adults one of the hardest hit tourist …