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Accepted Paper:
Paper Short Abstract:
This research examines revenge tourism through an anthropological lens, analyzing how violent conflict impacts regional tourism while shaping travel motivations. It explores how war experiences generate stress and desire for normalcy manifesting as revenge travel.
Paper Abstract:
This research examines revenge tourism through an anthropological lens, analyzing how violent conflict and instability not only severely impact regional tourism industries but also shape human travel motivations and behaviors. Utilizing quantitative data gathered from Israeli participants during “Iron Sword” war, the study explores how experiences of war become embodied, generating heightened stress and desire for normalcy that manifest through revenge travel. The current research focus on the effect of demographic data, personality traits and perceived stress on travel intentions.
The data included 660 Israeli participants, 51.8% women and 48.2% men, with an average age of 42.18 (SD=14.33). All participants completed self-reported questionnaires. Data was analyzed using path analysis.
The results indicate that demographic factors and personal resources impacted reactions to the war. In particular, women and those with lower resilience viewed it as more stressful. Additionally, higher stress levels and lower religiousness impacted the levels of revenge tourism. Participants also reported a reduced in tourism expenditures while the instability persisted.
An anthropological interpretation situates these findings within long-standing theoretic debates over structure and agency. Destabilizing events clearly constrain human activity and movements, evidencing structural domination. Yet ensuing revenge tourism also reveals people’s agentive capacities – their ability as individuals and groups to construct meanings, form intentions, and undertake actions towards recovery and healing in the aftermath. Tourism serves as a ritual restore normalcy, though framed by demographic factors like gender and prior experience.
Doing / undoing conflict
Session 12