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Perceptions of Tourism Impacts and Satisfaction with Particular Life Domains

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Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research

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This chapter will take the reader on a voyage where the perceptions of tourism impacts and the satisfaction with particular life domains are discussed. The perceived tourist experience will generate either a positive or a negative affect in various life domains. This influences the sense of well-being in these life domains and leads to satisfaction or dissatisfaction. Both of these play an important role in overall life satisfaction. The subjective, well-being impact of tourism is based on tourists’ perceptions of positive or negative experiences during the trip to a tourist destination. The perceptions by inbound and outbound tourists of positive or negative affects in a specified life domain play an important role in the increase of positive or negative affects within the relevant life domains. Satisfaction in the various life domains is important in determining satisfaction with life overall (subjective indicator of quality-of-life).

The traditional idea that improved health on holiday is an anticipated consequence of escape from work and the movement to a place with a cleaner (or warmer) environment, seems to become a central theme of tourism in an active rather than a passive sense.

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    Philippus Stephanes (Stefan) Kruger

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  1. State University, Dept. Hospitality & Tourism Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute &, Blacksburg, 24061, Virgin Islands, USA

    Muzaffer Uysal

  2. State University, Dept. Hospitality & Tourism Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute &, Blacksburg, 24061, Virgin Islands, USA

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  3. Pamlin College of Business, Dept. Marketing, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Pamplin Hall 2025, Blacksburg, 24061-0236, Virgin Islands, USA

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Kruger, P.S. (2012). Perceptions of Tourism Impacts and Satisfaction with Particular Life Domains. In: Uysal, M., Perdue, R., Sirgy, M. (eds) Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2288-0_16

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