Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research: Enhancing the Lives of Tourists and Residents of Host Communities

Front Matter....Pages i-lxii
Prologue: Tourism and Quality-of-Life (QOL) Research: The Missing Links....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Relationships and the Tourism Experience: Challenges for Quality-of-Life Assessments....Pages 9-29
Positive Psychology and Tourism....Pages 31-50
The Role of Qualitative Methods in Tourism QOL Research: A Critique and Future Agenda....Pages 51-63
Poverty Elimination Through Tourism Dynamics....Pages 65-83
Tourism, Poverty Relief, and the Quality-of-Life in Developing Countries....Pages 85-103
Tourism and Quality-of-Life: How Does Tourism Measure Up?....Pages 105-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Tourist Consumption Behavior and Quality-of-Life....Pages 135-148
Subjective Aspects of Tourists’ Quality-of-Life (QOL)....Pages 149-167
Medical Travel and the Quality-of-Life....Pages 169-191
Physical, Psychological, and Social Aspects of QOL Medical Tourism....Pages 193-207
Place Affinities, Lifestyle Mobilities, and Quality-of-Life....Pages 209-231
Tourist Motivation and Quality-of-Life: In Search of the Missing Link....Pages 233-250
Understanding the Antecedents of Destination Identification: Linkage Between Perceived Quality-of-Life, Self-Congruity, and Destination Identification....Pages 251-261
An Analysis of Tourism QOL Domains from the Demand Side....Pages 263-277
Perceptions of Tourism Impacts and Satisfaction with Particular Life Domains....Pages 279-292
Quality-of-Life and Travel Motivations: Integrating the Two Concepts in the Grevillea Model....Pages 293-308
Relational Tourism: Observations on Families and Travel....Pages 309-320
Impacts of the Internet on Travel Satisfaction and Overall Life Satisfaction....Pages 321-337
Front Matter....Pages 339-339
Cultural Tourism and the Enhancement of Quality-of-Life....Pages 341-357
Front Matter....Pages 339-339
Heritage, Tourism and Quality-of-Life....Pages 359-371
Ethnic Tourism and Resident Quality-of-Life....Pages 373-387
Alternative Tourism as a Contestable Quality-of-Life Facilitator....Pages 389-402
Building Social Capital to Enhance the Quality-of-Life of Destination Residents....Pages 403-421
The Tourist Area Life Cycle (TALC) and Its Effect on the Quality-of-Life (QOL) of Destination Community....Pages 423-443
Relationship Between Carrying Capacity of Small Island Tourism Destinations and Quality-of-Life....Pages 445-462
Quality-of-Life Values Among Stakeholders in Tourism Destinations: A Tale of Converging and Diverging Interests and Conflicts....Pages 463-473
Stakeholder Engagement in Tourism Planning and Development....Pages 475-490
Destination Competitiveness and Its Implications for Host-Community QOL....Pages 491-513
Destination Management, Competitiveness, and Quality-of-Life: A Review of Literature and Research Agenda....Pages 515-528
Destination Management and Quality-of-Life....Pages 529-545
Community Participation in Tourism Planning and Development....Pages 547-564
The Role of Tourism in Sustainable Communities....Pages 565-582
Exploring the Causal Nexus of Tourism Impacts on Quality-of-Life....Pages 583-606
Rural Tourism and Second Home Development: The Case of Colorado....Pages 607-633
The Effect of Tourism on the Housing Market....Pages 635-652
Resident Quality-of-Life in Gaming Communities....Pages 653-666
Front Matter....Pages 667-667
The Missing Links and Future Research Directions....Pages 669-684
Back Matter....Pages 685-702