Tourists’ emotions as a resource for customer value creation, cocreation, and destruction: a customer-grounded understanding

Research on customer value creation in a tourism setting has tended to prioritize the firm’s over the customer’s perspective. However, new understandings of customer value through the lens of customer-dominant logic emphasize the need to consider value as emerging within the broader context of a cus...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Malone, Sheila, McKechnie, Sally, Tynan, Caroline
Format: Article
Published: SAGE 2017
Subjects:
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46611/
_version_ 1848797366986997760
author Malone, Sheila
McKechnie, Sally
Tynan, Caroline
author_facet Malone, Sheila
McKechnie, Sally
Tynan, Caroline
author_sort Malone, Sheila
building Nottingham Research Data Repository
collection Online Access
description Research on customer value creation in a tourism setting has tended to prioritize the firm’s over the customer’s perspective. However, new understandings of customer value through the lens of customer-dominant logic emphasize the need to consider value as emerging within the broader context of a customer’s lifeworld, which transcends customer–firm interactions and includes interactions with others. Tourism experiences are experiential and meaning-laden at the individual and collective levels. As a resource for value creation, emotions play an important but underexplored role during value-in-use and influence the tourist’s consumption experience. We provide a customer-grounded understanding of value creation as emerging and evolving over time by examining how emotions are experienced and contribute to the holistic consumption experience both intra- and intersubjectively. By demonstrating how emotions, as a customer operant resource, contribute to the process of value creation as well as value destruction, we extend our knowledge of experiential consumption practices.
first_indexed 2025-11-14T20:02:45Z
format Article
id nottingham-46611
institution University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
institution_category Local University
last_indexed 2025-11-14T20:02:45Z
publishDate 2017
publisher SAGE
recordtype eprints
repository_type Digital Repository
spelling nottingham-466112020-05-04T18:56:28Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46611/ Tourists’ emotions as a resource for customer value creation, cocreation, and destruction: a customer-grounded understanding Malone, Sheila McKechnie, Sally Tynan, Caroline Research on customer value creation in a tourism setting has tended to prioritize the firm’s over the customer’s perspective. However, new understandings of customer value through the lens of customer-dominant logic emphasize the need to consider value as emerging within the broader context of a customer’s lifeworld, which transcends customer–firm interactions and includes interactions with others. Tourism experiences are experiential and meaning-laden at the individual and collective levels. As a resource for value creation, emotions play an important but underexplored role during value-in-use and influence the tourist’s consumption experience. We provide a customer-grounded understanding of value creation as emerging and evolving over time by examining how emotions are experienced and contribute to the holistic consumption experience both intra- and intersubjectively. By demonstrating how emotions, as a customer operant resource, contribute to the process of value creation as well as value destruction, we extend our knowledge of experiential consumption practices. SAGE 2017-07-20 Article PeerReviewed Malone, Sheila, McKechnie, Sally and Tynan, Caroline (2017) Tourists’ emotions as a resource for customer value creation, cocreation, and destruction: a customer-grounded understanding. Journal of Travel Research . ISSN 1552-6763 Customer-dominant logic; Emotions; Value creation; Value co-creation; Value destruction http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0047287517720118 doi:10.1177/0047287517720118 doi:10.1177/0047287517720118
spellingShingle Customer-dominant logic; Emotions; Value creation; Value co-creation; Value destruction
Malone, Sheila
McKechnie, Sally
Tynan, Caroline
Tourists’ emotions as a resource for customer value creation, cocreation, and destruction: a customer-grounded understanding
title Tourists’ emotions as a resource for customer value creation, cocreation, and destruction: a customer-grounded understanding
title_full Tourists’ emotions as a resource for customer value creation, cocreation, and destruction: a customer-grounded understanding
title_fullStr Tourists’ emotions as a resource for customer value creation, cocreation, and destruction: a customer-grounded understanding
title_full_unstemmed Tourists’ emotions as a resource for customer value creation, cocreation, and destruction: a customer-grounded understanding
title_short Tourists’ emotions as a resource for customer value creation, cocreation, and destruction: a customer-grounded understanding
title_sort tourists’ emotions as a resource for customer value creation, cocreation, and destruction: a customer-grounded understanding
topic Customer-dominant logic; Emotions; Value creation; Value co-creation; Value destruction
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46611/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46611/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46611/