EUDAIMONIC TOURISM: ENSURING SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH THE DESIGN OF MEANINGFUL TOURISM EXPERIENCES

Eudaimonic tourism, as a new concept, has already shown its value in ensuring the sustainability of tourism by providing meaningful, emotion-driven experiences for visitors. Due to a lack of knowledge on how to design eudaimonic tourist experiences to prompt eudaimonic well-being and what role emotions play in this process, this study systematically explores and synthesizes the literature on eudaimonic tourism using the PRISMA protocol to answer two research questions: 1. What design cues can be used to design eudaimonic tourism experiences to prompt eudaimonic well-being, and 2. What is the role of specific emotions in such experiences? The findings indicate that eudaimonic tourism can enrich visitors' lives while ensuring the destination's sustainability. Tourist destinations should provide meaningful experiences that stimulate mixed emotions and offer ample opportunities for social interactions, altruism, and pro-environmental behavior. This study is the first to analyze the literature that specifically focuses on the emerging concept of eudaimonic tourism and how it relates to the sustainability of tourism experiences.