Risk-tourism, risk-taking and subjective well-being: A review and synthesis

By M. Holm, P. Lugosi, Robertico Croes, Edwin N. Torres. 2017

104 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This paper seeks to conceptualize the potential relationship between subjective well-being and risk-taking within ‘risk-tourism’ i.e. specific activities that involve the potential for physical injury and death and require participants to develop competencies with which to overcome the risks associated with those activities. Literature is reviewed in three fields of inquiry: subjective well-being, with specific reference to the interactions between wellbeing and tourism behavior, risk-taking in tourism and risk-tourism. The areas of interaction between risk-tourism and subjective well-being, emerging critical questions and potential areas of future inquiry are subsequently examined.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/638a72a782b6bc10b2f10ee18f16575f0b83927c

Citations in the corpus

• The impact of tourism activity type on emotion and storytelling: The moderating roles of travel companion presence and relative ability (2020, unknown): “For instance, adventure tourism activities have been noted to be particularly emotionally, cognitively, and often physically engaging; thus, they are more intensively immersive (Holm, Lugosi, Croes, & Torres, 2017; Rokenes, Schumann, & Rose, 2015; Tsaur, Yen, & Hsiao, 2013).”