Antecedents, process and post-effects of transformative tourism experience: A systematic review of English literature
Received date: 2025-05-06
Revised date: 2025-08-01
Online published: 2025-09-08
Driven by the transition to an experience economy and the reconstruction of personal existential values, the theoretical construction of transformative tourism experience (TTE) has emerged as a frontier in tourism research. Based on the pertinent English literature from the Web of Science core collection, this study integrates CiteSpace bibliometric analysis and the PRISMA framework, guided by the “Stimulus-Organism-Response” framework and transformative learning theory to systematically deconstruct the generative mechanism of TTE. The research finds that: (1) the antecedents of TTE exhibit five-dimensional interactions encompassing individual attributes, embodied engagement, emotional activation, destination characteristics, and tourism contexts; (2) The process of TTE follows a cyclic feedback mechanism from “disorienting dilemmas-triggers-self-reflection-transformation” to the re-stimulation of transformative tourism, aligning with the transformative learning theory; (3) TTE mainly include four layers of effects: physical, psychological, spiritual and social gains, the key points of its post-effects are prominently reflected in the improvement of individual skills and cognition, self-actualization, and the promotion of social progress, etc. The research framework of “antecedent-process-post-effect” proposed in the study provides theoretical inspiration for the construction of a transformative tourism experience research system in the Chinese scenario and enriches the research paradigm of tourism experience.
Wang Lin , Zhou Lingxu , Hu Junyi . Antecedents, process and post-effects of transformative tourism experience: A systematic review of English literature[J]. ECOTOURISM, 2025 , 15(4) : 673 -688 . DOI: 10.12342/zgstly.20250150
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