@inbook{8cec61fb4398490889c9931d64b5e274,
title = "Human connection: A crucial ingredient in vacation experience",
abstract = "Interactions between people have emerged from both psychology and tourism research as important catalysts for quality of life. Conceptualization and measurement of social interaction has remained difficult, however. In this chapter we conceptualize human connection as a key component of social interaction during tourism experiences. We introduce a single-item measure of connection and implement it in longitudinal study of 133 vacation park stays in the Netherlands. The data showed that connection is linked to positive and negative emotions during vacation within participants, and that between-participant differences in positive emotion during vacation mediated the relationship between average daily connection during vacation and positive trait affect 1 week after return home. These findings show that human connection is a readily measurable and useful concept within the realm of social interactions on vacation. Furthermore, experience providers as well as researchers should pay attention to and reinforce tourists{\textquoteright} sense of connection to others during their vacations.",
author = "O. Mitas and M. Shahvali and P. Ward and M. Duerden and M. Bastiaansen",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-31513-8_16",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783031315121",
volume = "2",
series = "International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "225--236",
editor = "Muzaffer Uysa and MJ Sirgy",
booktitle = "Handbook of tourism and quality-of-Life research II",
address = "United States",
}