''If I was going to die I should at least be having fun": Travel blogs, meaning and tourist experience
By Carmela Bosangit, Sally Hibbert, Scott McCabe. 2015
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Travel blogs are an under-utilised resource for researchers of tourism experiences. They can provide rich insights on how tourists express the transformational effects of their experiences for the self. This study of travel blogs by nineteen British bloggers reveals how elements of the narrative relating to self-reflection and emotions are central to the process of transforming their travel experiences into personally meaningful experiences. Bloggers implicitly and explicitly express how travel contributes to self-identity, signalling self-development. The study contributes to knowledge about the lasting impact of long term travel on people, adding meaning symbolic of an evolving self.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Negative emotions in tourism: a meaningful analysis (2019, background): “In the last few years, there is a growing body of work on tourists’ emotions (e.g. Bosangit et al., 2015; Buda, 2015; Cohen, Prayag, & Moital, 2014; Palau-Saumell, Forgas-Coll, Sánchez-García, & Prats-Planagumà, 2013; Tucker, 2016).”