Tourism experience and quality of life: the roles of autobiographical memory and social networking service posting behaviour
by Hee Chung Chung; Sung-Byung Yang; Namho Chung
International Journal of Mobile Communications (IJMC), Vol. 22, No. 2, 2023

Abstract: With an increasing number of people who enjoy leisure time to improve their present quality of life (QOL), this study attempts to investigate the relationship between tourism experience and QOL. As tourists leave their destinations, on-site experiences are recorded as memories, which are constantly recalled in daily life and can affect the QOL of tourists. Thus, this study is to understand the mechanism of the relationship among tourism experience, autobiographical memory, and QOL. Our findings show all dimensions of the tourism-experience economy positively affect autobiographical memory, except for entertaining experience. Moreover, our interesting results show that, at the moment when tourists can be actively immersed, the behaviour (i.e., SNS posting) to record the tourism experience becomes a factor that obstructs the memory.

Online publication date: Sun, 30-Jul-2023

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