WAYS OF BEING WELL: THE ROLE OF SAVORING IN TOURIST’S WELLBEING

<p dir="ltr">While conceptually addressing similar questions, intellectual relationships between tourism research and positive psychology are still tentative. A recent review of the emerging transdisciplinary field (Vada et al., 2020) identified savoring as central antecedent to understanding touristic experience and tourists’ well-being. Essential to understanding touristic experiences is to examine individual approaches and subjective experiences of lived experiences. Until recently touristic research adopted mostly qualitative approaches to understanding savoring (Filep et al., 2013) and only recently quantitative approaches have been introduced from the field of positive psychology (Vada et al., 2020). In our study we aim to utilize psychological approaches to savoring and wellbeing to provide insight into individuals ways of experiencing touristic experiences and the potential effects of these approaches on wellbeing</p>