Title: Tourism experience and quality of life: the roles of autobiographical memory and social networking service posting behaviour

Authors: Hee Chung Chung; Sung-Byung Yang; Namho Chung

Addresses: Smart Tourism Research Centre, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 02447, South Korea ' School of Management, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 02447, South Korea ' Smart Tourism Education Platform, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 02447, South Korea

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.

Keywords: tourism experience; experience economy; autobiographical memory; social networking service; SNS; SNS posting; tourist satisfaction; quality of life.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2023.132570

International Journal of Mobile Communications, 2023 Vol.22 No.2, pp.125 - 155

Received: 10 Apr 2021
Accepted: 01 Aug 2021
Published online: 30 Jul 2023 *

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