Daniela Angelina Jelinčić, PhD, Senior Research Adviser from the Department for Culture and Communication, and Ingeborg Matečić, PhD, Faculty of Economics & Business – Zagreb, Department of Tourism published an article titled ‘Broken but Well: Healing Dimensions of Cultural Tourism Experience’ in special issue of Sustainability journal, which deals with the topic of sustainable health tourism. Sustainability journal is indexed in Current Contents Connect, Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus databases.
Abstract
Wellbeing has been researched in relation to social, wellness, rural, backpacker, senior, wildlife, transformational or transformative tourism or studies exist specifically focusing on wellbeing tourism. Surprisingly enough, there is a void of research focus on wellbeing in cultural tourism, although culture has been considered as having a substantial impact on wellbeing. The research uses the case study of the Museum of Broken Relationships (MBR) in Zagreb, Croatia, under the assumption that MBR experiences have a relevant influence on tourists’ subjective wellbeing. Subjective wellbeing was measured after the visitation using the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (SWEMWBS) and a majority of the respondents experienced moderate to high wellbeing. Furthermore, the research aimed to investigate whether or not there is any difference between cultural and non-cultural tourists’ subjective wellbeing noted after the visitation to the Museum. The results showed that there was no substantial difference between cultural and non-cultural tourists’ subjective wellbeing