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Quality-of-Life and Travel Motivations: Integrating the Two Concepts in the Grevillea Model

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Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research

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Over the past three decades, two bodies of literature have developed relatively independently: Quality-of-Life research in Psychology and Travel Motivations research in Tourism. Yet, the constructs underlying these two bodies of research are strongly interrelated. This book chapter (1) reviews the Quality-of-Life research area with a specific focus on the role of vacations as a Quality-of-Life domain, (2) reviews prior work in the area of Travel Motivations with a specific focus on motivational segments which may be associated with differences in the importance people attribute to vacations in general, and (3) proposes a conceptual model, referred to as the Grevillea Model, which integrates heterogeneity in the population with respect to both the importance attributed to vacations and Travel Motivations.

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    Note that many test batteries for quality-of-life have been developed for subgroups of the population, e.g., cancer patients, children with disabilities etc. Given the topic of our research, these measures are not relevant, and we have focused only on measures of quality-of-life which have been developed for healthy adults.

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    Sara Dolnicar, Katie Lazarevski & Venkata Yanamandram

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Dolnicar, S., Lazarevski, K., Yanamandram, V. (2012). Quality-of-Life and Travel Motivations: Integrating the Two Concepts in the Grevillea Model. In: Uysal, M., Perdue, R., Sirgy, M. (eds) Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2288-0_17

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