While private social dining has emerged as a new activity in the sharing economy, associated research is limited. This study aims to conceptualize tourists’ private social dining experiences by incorporating the concept of the experience economy with the sharing economy. Thematic analysis of 29 interviews unveiled a hierarchical framework, beginning with a personalized experience and leading to sensory experience before ending with emotional experience in private social dining settings. Seven identified emotional experiential domains were then situated within a four-quadrant framework to address how private social dining can enrich the four original experiential domains of the experience economy (i.e. entertainment, education, esthetic, and escapism) to trigger tourists’ emotional pleasure. These results lay a theoretical foundation for future studies and provide practical implications for the development of food tourism.

尽管私人社交餐饮已成为共享经济中的一项新活动，但相关研究仍然有限。这项研究旨在通过将体验经济与共享经济相结合来概念化游客的私人社交用餐体验。对29个访谈的主题分析揭示了一个分层的框架，该框架从个性化的体验开始，直至感官体验，再到私人社交餐厅的情感体验结束。然后，在四个象限的框架内放置了七个已确定的情感体验域，以解决私人社交餐饮如何丰富体验经济的四个原始体验域（即娱乐，教育，审美和逃避现实）以引发游客的情感愉悦。