Broken but Well: Healing Dimensions of Cultural Tourism Experiences
1
Institute for Development and International Relations 1, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
2
Department of Tourism, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2021, 13(2), 966; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020966
Received: 29 December 2020
/
Revised: 15 January 2021
/
Accepted: 18 January 2021
/
Published: 19 January 2021
(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Health Tourism)
Wellbeing has been researched in relation to social, wellness, rural, backpacker, senior, wildlife, transformational or transformative tourism or studies exist specifically focusing on wellbeing tourism. Surprisingly enough, there is a void of research focus on wellbeing in cultural tourism, although culture has been considered as having a substantial impact on wellbeing. The research uses the case study of the Museum of Broken Relationships (MBR) in Zagreb, Croatia, under the assumption that MBR experiences have a relevant influence on tourists’ subjective wellbeing. Subjective wellbeing was measured after the visitation using the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (SWEMWBS) and a majority of the respondents experienced moderate to high wellbeing. Furthermore, the research aimed to investigate whether or not there is any difference between cultural and non-cultural tourists’ subjective wellbeing noted after the visitation to the Museum. The results showed that there was no substantial difference between cultural and non-cultural tourists’ subjective wellbeing.
View Full-Text
Keywords:
culture; cultural tourism; subjective wellbeing; experiences; emotions
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
MDPI and ACS Style
Jelinčić, D.A.; Matečić, I. Broken but Well: Healing Dimensions of Cultural Tourism Experiences. Sustainability 2021, 13, 966. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020966
AMA Style
Jelinčić DA, Matečić I. Broken but Well: Healing Dimensions of Cultural Tourism Experiences. Sustainability. 2021; 13(2):966. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020966
Chicago/Turabian StyleJelinčić, Daniela A., and Ingeborg Matečić. 2021. "Broken but Well: Healing Dimensions of Cultural Tourism Experiences" Sustainability 13, no. 2: 966. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020966
Find Other Styles
Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here.
