“If I was going to die I should at least be having fun”: Travel blogs, meaning and tourist experience

Carmela Bosangit; S. Hibbert; S. McCabe

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2015.08.001

“If I was going to die I should at least be having fun”: Travel blogs, meaning and tourist experience

Carmela Bosangit, S. Hibbert, S. McCabe

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Abstract

Travel blogs are an under-utilised resource for researchers of tourism experiences. They can provide rich insights on how tourists express the transformational effects of their experiences for the self. This study of travel blogs by nineteen British bloggers reveals how elements of the narrative relating to self-reflection and emotions are central to the process of transforming their travel experiences into personally meaningful experiences. Bloggers implicitly and explicitly express how travel contributes to self-identity, signalling self-development. The study contributes to knowledge about the lasting impact of long term travel on people, adding meaning symbolic of an evolving self.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-14
Journal	Annals of Tourism Research
Volume	55
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2015.08.001
Publication status	Published - 2015

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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backpacker travel
tourist experience
travel narratives
travel blogs

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