The role of hedonism in ethical tourism
By Sheila Malone, Scott McCabe, Andrew Smith. 2014
206 citations recorded by the source corpus.
This paper investigates the role of emotion in the ethical choice processes of tourists. Specifically, it explores how hedonism is experienced and the links between hedonic experiences and intentions for future ethical behaviour. It adopts an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach to examine the experience of emotion in self-defined ethical tourists’ consumption of places. The findings highlight that emotionally charged experiences are powerful motivators of consumers’ ethical choice. It identifies the role hedonism plays in rationalizing and reinforcing current and intended ethical behaviour. Finally, the paper discusses the importance of emotional experiences as a source of hedonic value in engaging individuals in consumption encounters.
Subfields: Marketing, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6710d167dcf53f67c06a21aeb57e3d56ad09b876
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In Marketing
- Scott McCabe
- Drew Martin
- Arch G. Woodside
- Sonja Grabner‐Kräuter
- Shintaro Okazaki
- Chunxiao Li
- Ralf Terlutter
- Zengxiang Chen
In Social Psychology
- Drew Martin
- Sonja Grabner‐Kräuter
- Scott McCabe
- Shintaro Okazaki
- Ralf Terlutter
- Arch G. Woodside
- Sameer Hosany
In Sociology and Political Science
- Scott McCabe
- Drew Martin
- Arch G. Woodside
- Sonja Grabner‐Kräuter
- Shintaro Okazaki
- Chunxiao Li
- Ralf Terlutter
- Zengxiang Chen
Citations in the corpus
- Emotions in Tourism: Theoretical Designs, Measurements, Analytics, and Interpretations (2020, background): “Negative emotions lead to positive outcomes such as eudaimonic happiness and an identity formation (Nawijn and Biran 2019) and ethical choice formation (Malone, McCabe, and Smith 2014).”
- The Desirability of CSR Communication versus Greenhushing in the Hospitality Industry: The Customers’ Perspective (2020, background): “First, people usually go on holiday to enjoy luxury, freedom, and something they cannot afford or would not do in their daily lives (Malone, McCabe, and Smith 2014; Coles et al. 2017).”
- Time for a Radical Reappraisal of Tourist Decision Making? Toward a New Conceptual Model (2016, background): “…to generalize or ascribe causality to actions, arguing instead for recognition of plurality and phenomenological interpretations of tourist behaviors (Uriely 2005), the role of consumption emotions more generally (Goldie 2009), or within tourism experience contexts (Malone, McCabe, and Smith 2014).”