ABSTRACT

Although there is the saying “there’s no place like home”, research on a traveler’s sense of feeling at home in an accommodation and its influence on their well-being is underrepresented. Particularly, given the increase of peer-to-peer accommodations and healthcare travel segment, this gap is notable. Analyzing data including 420 respondents who stayed at an Airbnb and 320 who stayed at hotel accommodations, structural equation modeling tested the effect of an “accommodations homescape” on a healthcare traveler’s sense of feeling at home and well-being. The findings have strategic implications that emphasize the need to engineer home-like environments for particular traveler segments.

摘要

尽管有“没有地方像家”这样的说法，但对旅行者在住宿中的家的感觉及其对他们的幸福感的影响的研究却很少。特别是，鉴于点对点住宿和医疗保健旅行细分市场的增加，这一差距非常明显。结构方程分析了包括420位住在Airbnb的受访者和320位住在酒店住宿的受访者的数据，并通过结构方程模型测试了“住宿环境”对医疗保健旅行者的在家感和幸福感的影响。研究结果具有战略意义，强调需要为特定旅客群体设计类似家庭的环境。