Mindfulness and Tourism

Abstract

Mindfulness, a kind of mental perception, has a long history in Buddhist spiritual traditions, but has also a well-developed use in clinical psychology as a mental health intervention. Meditative mindfulness provides therapeutic benefits in the treatment of mental trauma. Recently, an interest in the outcomes derived from meditative mindful experience has emerged in tourism studies. Tourists experiencing a mindful-like event may get a sense of peacefulness and a harmonic relationship between the self and the environment. This chapter discusses how meditative mindfulness can be integrated into tourism experiences and create subtle therapeutic-like effects. Theoretically, this study bridges the relationship between a meditative mindful tourist experience and its perceived consequences. Practically, it explains how to generate mental health outcomes from tourism experiences.

Citation

I-Ling Chen, L. and Scott, N. (2024), "Mindfulness and Tourism", Cognitive Psychology and Tourism (Tourism Social Science Series, Vol. 27), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 227-236. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-504320240000027018