Tourism and wellbeing

Annals of Tourism Research

Volumn 66, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-13

  Kay Smith, Melanie ^a,b,c   Diekmann, Anya ^d  

^a Sumy State University   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Eudaimonic; Happiness; Hedonic; Self; Tourist experience; Wellbeing

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TOURISM; TOURIST BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85020294934     PISSN: 01607383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2017.05.006     Document Type: Article

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