Title of Paper

A pilot study on guiding travelers through transformation

Author Bios (50 Words for each Author)

Joelle Soulard is an Assistant Professor in the Recreation, Sport, and Tourism Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. Her research agenda aims to understand the roles of travel and leisure experiences in fostering transformation, activism, and resilience. Her interests reside in the desire to create research that is actionable, inclusive, and offers creative solutions to challenges encountered by community members and travelers at destinations.

Emma Lundin is a Ph.D. student in he Recreation, Sport, and Tourism Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. Her research interests include exploring tourism as a multispecies phenomenon, interspecies sustainability, and relationships between humans and other animals, focusing on learning experiences and more-than-human approaches to learn with other animals, tourists, and destination residents.

Abstract (150 Words)

Rooted in the Transformative Learning Theory, transformative travel facilitates travelers' self-reflection, generates powerful emotions, and encourages them to develop more inclusive views. While transformative travel research mainly focuses on visitors' perspectives, local volunteers' roles, such as docents, in guiding these experiences are left unexplored. We examine ways docents at a Museum can guide travelers through transformation by integrating the concept of emotional intelligence into the Transformative Learning Theory.

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A pilot study on guiding travelers through transformation

Rooted in the Transformative Learning Theory, transformative travel facilitates travelers' self-reflection, generates powerful emotions, and encourages them to develop more inclusive views. While transformative travel research mainly focuses on visitors' perspectives, local volunteers' roles, such as docents, in guiding these experiences are left unexplored. We examine ways docents at a Museum can guide travelers through transformation by integrating the concept of emotional intelligence into the Transformative Learning Theory.