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To examine how smartphone usage influences interpersonal relationships, family cohesion, and overall experiences during family vacations.

May 1, 2017Journal of Travel Research

The Impact of Smartphones on the Family Vacation Experience

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To examine how smartphone usage influences interpersonal relationships, family cohesion, and overall experiences during family vacations.
Qualitative research design evaluating family interactions, smartphone engagement, and travel dynamics during vacations.
Families used smartphones concurrently to cultivate family unity and preserve personal individuality.
Smartphones directly mediated how families navigated, engaged with, and experienced their vacation destinations.
Device engagement altered conventional processes through which family members internalize and recall vacation memories.

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Qualitative study uncovers how smartphone usage reshapes cohesion, destination engagement, and memory recall in vacationing families, highlighting altered relational and travel dynamics.

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Yu et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dcc4a0a5c75be4cfe54098 https://doi.org/10.1177/0047287517706263

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Qualitative study uncovers how smartphone usage reshapes cohesion, destination engagement, and memory recall in vacationing families, highlighting altered relational and travel dynamics.

The Impact of Smartphones on the Family Vacation Experience

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