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Mixed feelings?: fluctuations in well-being during tourist travels

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  • Verônica Feder Mayer
  • Juliane dos Santos Machado
  • Osiris Marques
  • José Mauro Gonçalves Nunes

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The search for practices that increase people's well-being has expanded significantly in recent years. This can be seen in the tourism sector, since leisure travel is generally considered a promoter of well-being. Positive feelings are not the only ones to permeate the events of a trip, however, and travel is not simply a source of well-being. This work seeks to contribute to the literature by investigating how tourists’ subjective well-being varies over the course of a trip; how these variations are related to different events and what connections exist among these events; and what the main factors are that lead to the positive and negative variations of well-being reported by tourists and observed in their behavior. A multimethod research approach was adopted, combining participant observation with self-reported assessments. The results made it possible to identify the main promoters and reducers of well-being throughout a trip.

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  • Verônica Feder Mayer & Juliane dos Santos Machado & Osiris Marques & José Mauro Gonçalves Nunes, 2020. "Mixed feelings?: fluctuations in well-being during tourist travels," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(1-2), pages 158-180, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:40:y:2020:i:1-2:p:158-180
    DOI: 10.1080/02642069.2019.1600671
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    1. Laurence Graillot, 2021. "Main well-being factors in tourism context : an application to active sport tourism [Principaux facteurs du bien-être dans le domaine du tourisme : Une application au cas du tourisme sportif actif]," Post-Print hal-03457468, HAL.
    2. Ligang Liu & Yang Zhou & Xiao Sun, 2023. "The Impact of the Wellness Tourism Experience on Tourist Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Tourist Satisfaction," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-23, January.
    3. Kumar, Ajay & Paul, Justin & StarÄ ević, SlaÄ‘ana, 2021. "Do brands make consumers happy?- A masstige theory perspective," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 58(C).

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