Wish YOU Weren’t Here!’
Interpersonal Conflicts and the Touristic Experiences of Norwegian and British Women Travelling with Friends
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12697802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bente Heimtun (0000-0002-6422-2169, Finmark University College, Alta, Norway, corresponding author), Fiona Jordan (0000-0001-9489-0726, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 271-290 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tourist Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-7976 • E-ISSN: 1741-3206 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1468797611431504 |
| OpenAlex | W2029680811 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 63 |
Tourism is often portrayed by the tourism industry, tourists themselves and tourism scholars as a liminoid site of escape, happiness and freedom from constraint. For many, however, holidays do not live up to this expectation. This paper challenges the dominant tourism discourse of holidays as sites of unproblematic pleasure in examining contestation, conflicts and negotiations between women and their travelling companions. Drawing on conceptualizations of in-group interpersonal conflicts and theorization of the mobile social identities of women travellers, we explore the impact of holiday conflicts on women’s holiday experiences and friendships. The findings of this qualitative study of female tourists from Norway and the UK suggest that women adopt various strategies to deal with open and hidden conflicts that may threaten their friendships and holiday experiences. Such strategies include avoidance of conflict through compromise, negotiation of appropriate holiday behaviours prior to travel, or ultimately choosing to travel solo
Advertising · Business · Compromise · Happiness · Hedonism · Interpersonal communication · Interpersonal relationship · Negotiation · Norwegian · Pleasure · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Law · Psychology · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |