Positive Humanities and Tourism: A Conceptual Contribution
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https://doi.org/10.34630/e-rei.vi12.5801Keywords:
Positive humanities, cultural tourism, tourism experiences, wellbeing, flourishingAbstract
Positive Humanities emerges as a new scientific field and investigates the connection between culture and human flourishing. Based on positive psychology, this new area of research studies the positive outcomes of interacting with the arts and the humanities.
Tourism and particularly cultural tourism count on many services and products that focus on the local communities’ arts and humanities legacy. Therefore, tourism can be a sector where positive humanities can “flourish”. This paper aims to contribute to the enrichment of this new field by discussing and reflecting upon positive humanities in tourism experiences. The possibilities of merging these two fields are vast and its interconnection can bring new contributions for the advancement and understanding of both areas of study.
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