Recent developments in existential authenticity and psychoanalytic alienation have
challenged the traditional account of tourism's contribution to authenticity. To evaluate these …

The notion of existential authenticity has received an increasing attention in the field of
tourism studies as it pertains to understanding a wide range of tourist motivation and …

While there are multiple theoretical approaches to the concept of authenticity in tourism
studies, existential authenticity, an activity-based approach, has witnessed the greatest …

The aim of this study was to empirically explore existential authenticity from the perspectives
of visitors. Given that existentialism invites people to examine the authenticity of their …

The existential authenticity theory and eudaimonism theory imply that perceived cultural
distance facilitates existential authenticity, which then conduces to hedonic and eudaimonic …

Utilizing the notions of existential authenticity and normal anxiety, we propose the five-phase
model of vacation cycle and elucidate mechanisms behind vacation and fade-out effects …

Although modern society is more inclined to view authenticity from a postmodernist
perspective, few quantitative studies on heritage tourism explored existential authenticity in …

This paper explores the concept of existential authenticity, a state of being that can be
produced or pursued through tourism activities. This paper examines how it is understood by …

This research takes a post-postmodern stance to investigate tourists' predisposition toward
alterreal authenticity (ie, altered reality). It draws on Schachter's two-factor theory of emotion …

Purpose Authenticity has been studied from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, leading to
a rich but confused literature. This study, a review, aims to compare the psychology and …