TOURIST EXPERIENCE

Travel blogs are an under-utilized resource for researchers of tour-ism experiences. They can provide rich insights on how tourists express the transformational effects of their experiences for the self. This study of travel blogs by nineteen British bloggers reveals how elements of the narrative relating to self-reflection and emotions are central to the process of transforming their travel experiences into personally meaningful experiences.

Introduction

The tourism industry is in the business of selling experiences (KIM,2010)

The tourist experience includes everything a tourist goes through at a destination as experience, including behavior and perception, cognition, and emotions; either expressed or implied (Oh, Fiore, & Jeoung, 2007).Experiences represent distinct economic offerings, commodities, goods, and services, on the ground that they are unique, memorable, and personal(morocco, 2018