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Title: Shaping tourists’ wellbeing through guided slow adventures
Authors: Farkić, J
Filep, S 
Taylor, S
Issue Date: 2020
Source: Journal of sustainable tourism, 2020, v. 28, no. 12, p. 2064-2080
Abstract: Against the backdrop of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 3, good health and wellbeing, this paper reports on a study that examined how outdoor guides perceive their role in facilitating the psychological wellbeing of tourists who consume slow adventure experiences. These experiences, such as canoeing, stargazing or foraging, are characterised by a slower passage of time, immersion in the natural world and a sense of belonging to small social groups. Grounded in research on wellbeing from a positive psychology perspective, the study utilised semi-structured, in-depth, interviews with ten outdoor adventure guides in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Following a hermeneutic interpretive approach to analyse the interview transcripts, the findings revealed how perceptions of time, meaningful moments and a sense of togetherness are choreographed by slow adventure guides to shape tourists’ psychological wellbeing through immersive guided experiences, ultimately helping tourists to re-establish a much-yearned-for connection with nature. The study adds to tourism, wellbeing and sustainability literature by providing new perspectives on psychological wellbeing through guided slow adventures. In particular the findings contribute to positive tourism, or tourism and positive psychology field of research, by revealing how mindful and eudaimonic visitor experiences are organised by adventure tour guides in natural settings.
Keywords: Positive psychology
Slow adventure
Tour guiding
Tourist experiences
Wellbeing
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Journal: Journal of sustainable tourism 
ISSN: 0966-9582
EISSN: 1747-7646
DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2020.1789156
Rights: © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Sustainable Tourism on 2 Jul 2020 (Published online), available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09669582.2020.1789156.
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