Quality of life (QOL) research in tourism has gained much momentum over the last two decades. Academics working in this area research issues related to tourists and host communities. Practitioners are becoming increasingly interested in understanding the science that allows them to develop better marketing and managerial programs designed to enhance the quality of life of tourists. Tourism bureaus and government agencies are increasingly interested in issues of sustainable tourism, specifically in understanding and measuring the impact of tourism on the quality of life of the residents of the host communities. This handbook covers all relevant topics and is divided into two parts: research relating to travelers/tourists, and research relating to the residents of host communities. It is the only state-of-the-art reference book in its field and will prove invaluable to academics interested in QOL research, as well as tourism practitioners interested in applying the science of QOL in the tourism industry.

This handbook is the first state of the art reference book in the field This handbook brings together much of the current research on the topic to help academic researchers further develop their future research programs and practitioners to use well-being performance measures to aid in their decision making Covers much of the Quality of Life Research in relation to travellers and tourists and host communities

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Muzaffer Uysal is a professor of tourism (Ph.D., Texas A&M University), Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He has extensive experience in the travel and tourism field, authoring or co-authoring a significant number of articles in tourism, hospitality and recreation journals, proceedings, book chapters, and four monographs and one book relating to different aspects of tourism marketing, demand/supply interaction and international tourism. He also has conducted workshops and seminars on similar topics and field research in several countries. He is a member of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism, the Academy of Leisure Sciences, and serves as co-editor of Tourism Analysis: an Interdisciplinary journal. In addition, he sits on the editorial boards of eight journals, including Journal of Travel Research, and Annals of Tourism Research as resource editor. He also received a number of awards for Research, Excellence in International Education, and Teaching Excellence. His current research interests center on tourism demand/supply interaction, tourism development, and QOL research in tourism. Richard Perdue is a professor of tourism (Ph.D., Texas A&M University), and Head of the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He is an elected fellow, board chair, and past president of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism. Additionally, he currently serves as editor of the Journal of Travel Research which is widely recognized as one of the premier scholarly journals in tourism. He is also currently on the Board of Directors of the Travel and Tourism Research Association and on the editorial boards of three other tourism research journals. He has published extensively in the tourism scholarly literature, including numerous articles,proceedings, book chapters, and one book examining consumer psychology in tourism and hospitality settings. Over the past three decades, much of his research has focused on the effects of tourism development. His current research focuses on consumer behavior and sustainable development of tourism in rural, resort settings. M. Joseph Sirgy is a social/consumer/organizational psychologist (Ph.D., U/Massachusetts, 1979), Professor of Marketing, and Virginia Real estate Research Fellow at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He has published extensively in the area of quality-of-life (QOL) research, business ethics, systems science, and organizational/consumer psychology. He is the author/editor of many books related to quality of life and business ethics. He co-founded the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) in 1995 and is currently serving as its Executive Director. In 1998, he received the Distinguished Fellow Award from ISQOLS. In 2003, ISQOLS honored him as the Distinguished QOL Researcher for research excellence and a record of lifetime achievement in QOL research. He also served as President of the Academy of Marketing Science from which he received the Distinguished Fellow Award in the early 1990's and the Harold Berkman Service Award in 2007 (lifetime achievement award for serving the marketing professoriate). In the early 2000's, he helped co-found the Macromarketing Society and the Community Indicators Consortium and currently is serving as a board member of these two professional associations. Furthermore, he is the current editor of the QOL section in the Journal of Macromarketing and the editor-in-chief of Applied Research in Quality of Life.

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Forward by Jafar Jafari

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A Nice Place to Live is a Nice Place to Visit

Prologue:

Tourism and Quality of Life (QOL) Research: The Missing Links

Muzaffer Uysal, Richard R. Perdue and M. Joseph Sirgy

List of Contributors

Part I. Tourism and QOL

Chapter 1: Relationships and the Tourism Experience; Challenges for Quality of Life Assessments

Philip L. Pearce

Chapter 2. Positive Psychology and Tourism

Sebastian Filep

Chapter 3: The Role of Qualitative Methods in Tourism QOL Research: A Critique and Future Agenda

Vincent P. Magnini, John B. Ford and Michael S. LaTour

Chapter 4: Poverty Elimination through Tourism Dynamics

Manuel Vanegas Sr.

Chapter 5: Tourism, Poverty Relief and the QOL in Developing Countries Robertico Croes

Chapter 6: Tourism and Quality of Life: How Does Tourism Measure up?

Janne Liburd, Pierre Benckendorff and Jack Carlsen

Part II. QOL from the Perspectives of Tourists

Chapter 7: Tourist Consumption Behavior and Quality of Life

Ruhet Genç

Chapter 8: Subjective Aspects of Tourists' Quality of Life

Ruhet Genç

Chapter 9: Medical Travel and the Quality of Life

Erik Cohen

Chapter 10. Medical Tourism and Quality of Life: Physical, Physiological, and Social Aspects of QOL in Medical Tourism

Ruhet Genç

Chapter 11: Place Affinities, Lifestyle Mobilities and Quality of Life

Daniel R. Williams and Norman McIntyre

Chapter 12: Tourist Motivation and Quality of Life: In Search of the Missing Link

Graham M. S. Dann

Chapter 13: Understanding the Antecedents of Destination Identification: Linkage between Perceived Quality of Life, Self-Congruity and Destination Identification M. Mithat Üner and Can Armutlu

Chapter 14: An Analysis of Tourism QOL Domains from the Demand Side

László Puczkó and Melanie Smith

Chapter 15: Perceptions of Tourism Impacts and Satisfaction with Particular Life Domains

Philippus Stephanes (Stefan) Kruger

Chapter 16: Quality of Life and Travel Motivations Integrating the Two Concepts in the Grevillea Model

Sara Dolnicar, Katie Lazatevski, and Venkat Yanamandram

Chapter 17: Relational Tourism: Observations on Families and Travel

Jay A. Mancini, Deepu George and Bryce L. Jorgensen

Chapter 18: Impact of the Internet on Travel Satisfaction and Overall Life Satisfaction

Soo Hyun Jun, Heather J. Hartwell and Dimitrios Buhalis

Part III. QOL from the Perspectives of Residents

Chapter 19: Cultural Tourism and the Enhancement of Quality of Life