Journal of Tourism Futures: Volume 5 Issue 2 , Open Access

From the fluidity of the experience economy to transformative experiences as a catalyst for positive change: the future of experiential travel

Sabrina Seeler, Heike A. Schänzel

The experience economy: micro trends

Ian Seymour Yeoman, Una McMahon-Beattie

This trends paper is based upon a literature review and access to a series of databases; thus, with the help of these the purpose of this paper is to provide insight into changing…

Technological mediation in the future of experiential tourism

Ellis Urquhart

The purpose of this paper is to consider the role that technology may play in the future of experiential tourism. This viewpoint paper begins to question future developments in…

A tourism inflex: Generation Z travel experiences

Victor Mueke Robinson, Heike A. Schänzel

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it highlights the emergence of Generation Z and the interface of its members with the tourism system. Second, by way of a theoretical…

Exploring Chinese millennials’ experiential and transformative travel: a case study of mountain bikers in Tibet

Akke Folmer, Ali (Tanya) Tengxiage, Hanny Kadijk, Alastair John Wright

The purpose of this paper is to explore domestic experiential travel by Chinese millennials, a group of consumers who will increasingly influence the global travel and tourism…

Generation Z talking: transformative experience in educational travel

Desmond Wee

The purpose of this paper is to position experience as an immersive process through the documentation of student reflections of place involving the intricacies of embodied…

Learning to face global food challenges through tourism experiences

Giovanna Bertella, Benjamin Vidmar

The purpose of this paper is to provoke reflections on the potential contribution of food tourism experiences to achieving the sustainable development goals for eradicating hunger…

Transformative experiences via Airbnb: Is it the guests or the host communities that will be transformed?

Daniel Guttentag

The purpose of this paper is to describe how the growing presence of Airbnb rentals, resulting partly from tourists’ increasing desire for transformative travel experiences, is…

Cities in the experience economy: the rise and the future of urban leisure formats

Piotr Zmyslony, Karolina Anna Wędrowicz

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the rise and the future of urban leisure format (ULF), i.e. local seasonal short-lived and repeatable small-scale place-time-based staging…

Historic buildings and the creation of experiencescapes: looking to the past for future success

Richard Tresidder, Emmie Louise Deakin

The purpose of this paper is to identify the role that the creative re-use of historic buildings can play in the future development of the experiences economy. The aesthetic…

Argentinians on the Moon, or Hope for our Tomorrow

Marco Bevolo