Hedonic and eudaimonic well-being: A psycholinguistic view

Well-being as an intangible, philosophical, and multi-faceted phenomenon is hard to measure. By taking a psycholinguistic expression of well-being, we measure how tourists' experiencing holiday destinations affects their well-being states. The well-being state includes increases or decreases in Hedonia and Eudaimonia as a result of destination experiences. We apply text topic modelling to analyse big Web 2.0 datasets. These include tourists' self-reports of their experiences during their visit to destination countries collected from Travelblog.org weblog. The findings from a Global sample, New Zealand, and France are compared to generalise Hedonia and Eudaimonia conceptualisations across these destinations. The outputs also characterise experiences with maximum well-being and ill-being that include both Hedonia and Eudaimonia. Managerial implications include how a destination image may be managed according to desired well-being states. This also helps tourists make informed decisions about their holiday destinations.