The happy traveler : unpacking the secrets of better vacations / Jaime Kurtz.

Travel serves as a canvas onto which we project our deepest desires and needs: escape, relaxation, meaning, connection, edification, cultural education, and more. Author Jaime L. Kurtz's fifteen years of scientific research offers tremendous insight into how we might better extract happy, grate...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Kurtz, Jaime L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: I had one job
  • Flying blind : why you don't know what will make you happy six months from now
  • Where in the world? : why knowing your travel personality is essential to happy travel
  • Buying fun : what's worth your travel buck
  • The countdown is on : an unexpected way to boost your enjoyment of a trip before you even leave home
  • Step off the tour bus : how to peel back the layers and really see the world
  • Pictures or it didn't happen : the challenges of savoring in a hyperconnected world
  • The ultimate relationship test : what you need to know before traveling with someone
  • All good things must end : how to wind down from a trip without dreading the return to daily life
  • The art of the staycation : how to live every day like a happy traveler
  • The twelve rules for happy travel.