Family holidays—Vacation or obli-cation?

E Backer, H Schänzel - Tourism Recreation Research, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The most common stated reason for taking a holiday has been found to be 'to reduce stress'.
However, for families, particularly those with young children, holidays may create rather than …

The stress of the family holiday

E Backer, H Schänzel - Family tourism: Multidisciplinary perspectives, 2012 - degruyter.com
A holiday is by definition a time that is 'free': free from work and from producing things for the
profit of others; holidays are 'good times'(Inglis, 2000). Holidays are commonly understood …

Family time and own time on holiday: generation, gender, and group dynamic perspectives from New Zealand

HA Schänzel - 2010 - openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz
This thesis is about the family holiday experiences of the whole family group and its
individual members by studying the anticipations before the holiday and the short-and …