{"title":"The phases of self in transformative experiences","authors":"Barbara Neuhofer , Maria Laura Dulbecco","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103771","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the transformation age, individuals pursue experiences that offer awe-inducing moments and long-lasting transformation. Grounded in a psychological and phenomenological approach, this research aims to map out the holistic process a person undergoes in transformative tourism experiences by analysing some of the world's most transformational settings, namely, outer space, natural environments, and psychedelic journeys. The experiences of astronauts, econauts, and psychonauts are explored and synthesised into a multi-phasic transformative experience process model from initiation to integration - through the stages of the varying self. This study contributes novel theoretical and practical insights to tourism on how to design transformative offers and guide experiences to integration for a long-lasting positive impact on an individual's life.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Tourism Research","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738324000483","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In the transformation age, individuals pursue experiences that offer awe-inducing moments and long-lasting transformation. Grounded in a psychological and phenomenological approach, this research aims to map out the holistic process a person undergoes in transformative tourism experiences by analysing some of the world's most transformational settings, namely, outer space, natural environments, and psychedelic journeys. The experiences of astronauts, econauts, and psychonauts are explored and synthesised into a multi-phasic transformative experience process model from initiation to integration - through the stages of the varying self. This study contributes novel theoretical and practical insights to tourism on how to design transformative offers and guide experiences to integration for a long-lasting positive impact on an individual's life.
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The Annals of Tourism Research is a scholarly journal that focuses on academic perspectives related to tourism. The journal defines tourism as a global economic activity that involves travel behavior, management and marketing activities of service industries catering to consumer demand, the effects of tourism on communities, and policy and governance at local, national, and international levels. While the journal aims to strike a balance between theory and application, its primary focus is on developing theoretical constructs that bridge the gap between business and the social and behavioral sciences. The disciplinary areas covered in the journal include, but are not limited to, service industries management, marketing science, consumer marketing, decision-making and behavior, business ethics, economics and forecasting, environment, geography and development, education and knowledge development, political science and administration, consumer-focused psychology, and anthropology and sociology.
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