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How tourism activity shapes travel experience sharing: Tourist well-being and social context

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  • Su, Lujun
  • Tang, Binli
  • Nawijn, Jeroen

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Why people conduct different sharing about their travel is unclear. Understudied areas include the roles of tourism activity type, tourist well-being, and social context. Under the framework of construal level theory, three studies which combined secondary data and experiments revealed that: 1) challenging (relaxing) tourism activities lead to more desirability (feasibility) sharing; 2) eudaimonia (hedonia) occupy the dominant position and mediate the relationship between challenging (relaxing) tourism activity and desirability (feasibility) sharing; and 3) social context induces the transformation of the relationship between eudaimonia and hedonia, and has a significant moderating impact on the mechanism of travel experience sharing type. Theoretical and managerial implications of travel experience sharing type and mutual transformation between eudaimonia and hedonia are discussed.

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  • Su, Lujun & Tang, Binli & Nawijn, Jeroen, 2021. "How tourism activity shapes travel experience sharing: Tourist well-being and social context," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:anture:v:91:y:2021:i:c:s0160738321001948
    DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2021.103316
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