Is Travel Better Than Chocolate and Wine? The Benefits of Travel: A Special Series Academic Article

abstract

• Travel is beneficial. It creates opportunities for people to see other cultures, experience history, learn, strengthen bonds with loved ones and might even be beneficial to ones health. Yet research that empirically shows benefits beyond assisting communities with their economy is lacking. This article articulates the need for further benefits research and, we hope, will serve as an impetus for extensive academic and practical work in this area. It also unveils the overriding methodology used in the subsequent articles in the current special series and attempts to reveal the role the U.S. Travel Association has played in creating inertia in this topic of study.

authors

• Petrick, James

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF TRAVEL RESEARCH

altmetric score

• 1.35

author list (cited authors)

• Petrick, J. F., & Huether, D.

citation count

• 20

complete list of authors

• Petrick, James F||Huether, David

publication date

• November 2013

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Travel Research  Journal

keywords

• Benefits Of Tourism
• Benefits Of Travel
• Education Benefits
• Health Benefits
• Relationship Benefits

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/0047287513496479

start page

• 705

end page

• 708

volume

• 52

issue

• 6

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1177%2F0047287513496479