Progress on novelty in tourism: An integration of personality, attitudinal and emotional theoretical foundations

• DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104574
• Publication Date: 2022-06-11T00:05:49Z
• Authors: Ingvild H. Blomst...; Svein Ottar Olsen
• Keywords: Thematic Analysis

Novelty is often depicted as the essence of travelling and gaining attention in tourism literature. However, understanding novelty diverse, with multiple theoretical perspectives a lack consensus regarding its definition conceptualisation. This study integrates different presents an extended analysis progress tourism, both chronologically thematically. The findings indicate three thematic clusters categorised based on core novelty, antecedents, consequences, evolving through time periods. results show that mostly emotional appraisal attributes, influenced by novelty-seeking personality traits, can drive consequences including tourist satisfaction, loyalty, value. Future research explore integrated perspective defining attitudinal belief varying degrees valence, extremity, arousal evaluative space, which connects to other relevant antecedents consequences.