Vacationers happier, but most not happier after a holiday

Applied Research in Quality of Life

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-47

  Nawijn, Jeroen ^a,b,c   Marchand, Miquelle A ^d   Veenhoven, Ruut ^a   Vingerhoets, Ad J ^d  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NHTV BREDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c Tilburg University ^*  (Netherlands)

^d TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Happiness; Holiday stress; Quality of life; Subjective well being; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77549083897     PISSN: 18712584     EISSN: 18712576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11482-009-9091-9     Document Type: Article

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