Subjective Aspects of Quality of Life (QOL)

Abstract

Quality of life is considered to be a significant concept in various disciplines form psychology to management. Although, there is no consensus about the definition of quality of life concept, it is accepted that the concept is highly related to individual’s subjective sense of well-being. Tourism related research area is one of the developing areas which gives growing attention to the concept because that the tourism sector is highly affected to subjective preferences of the tourists as well as their well-being. Thus, it is important to understand the variables that influence tourist’s subjective aspects in order to understand their quality of life in tourism. It is the assumption that the increased understanding would give the opportunity to flourish to tourism sector.