Aspects of a Psychology of the Tourist Experience

By Svein Larsen. 2007

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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Extraordinary Experiences through Storytelling (2008, background): “Larsen (2007) argues that an experience is made up of memory process functions.”
Happiness Through Vacationing: Just a Temporary Boost or Long-Term Benefits? (2011, background): “Second, tourism experiences may contribute to happiness in everyday life through more indirect mechanisms, such as reminiscing of holiday experiences through memories (Larsen 2007; Morgan and Xu 2009), enforced by physical objects such as photographs and souvenirs, mental storage through affections,”
Tourism Memory Characteristics Scale: Development and Validation (2021, background): “In the post-trip stage, tourism experiences can be referred to as memories (Larsen 2007) that involve a variety of sensory elements (Agapito, Pinto, and Mendes 2017), emotional contents (Rahmani, Gnoth, and Mather 2019), and narratives (Jepson, Stadler, and Spencer 2019).”
Co-Creation Experiences: Attention and Memorability (2016, background): “This psychological perspective conceptualizes experience as involving cognitive processes, which are connected to different stages of the overall tourism experience (Larsen, 2007).”
Why Do We Like or Dislike Animals? (2009, background): “In the context of tourism studies, Larsen (2007 ) argues that scholars who are engaged in the applied sciences should build bridges with the more fundamental sciences.”
Wine tourism experience: A netnography study (2018, background): “Tourism experiences are no longer an optional added value but a mandatory benefit of any tourism offer (Larsen, 2007).”
Determinants of Daily Happiness on Vacation (2011, background): “Empirical data on the psychological aspects of the tourist experience (Larsen 2007) appear to be almost nonexistent.”
Memorable tourism experiences: antecedents and outcomes (2018, background): “…concerning personal experiences (Schwartz, 2011), are the type of long-term memory thought to be the most interesting to study in relation to tourist experiences (Larsen, 2007), considering that “lived experiences gather significance as we reflect on and give memory to them” (Curtin, 2005, p. 3).”
Co-creation of tourist experiences: a literature review (2018, background): “activities and interactions with other subjects (Larsen, 2007).”