Mindful tourist experiences: A Buddhist perspective
By Lynn I-Ling Chen, N. Scott, Pierre Benckendorff. 2017
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This paper distinguishes between the concepts of socio-cognitive mindfulness applied in a number of tourism studies and meditative mindfulness derived from a Buddhist philosophy. An operational definition of meditative mindful tourist experiences is proposed based on forty-three semi-structured interviews involving 77 episodes of meditative mindful experiences. The paper also proposes a framework of meditative mindfulness in tourism. The framework identifies a number of antecedents to meditative mindful experience episodes and reveals several psychological and physical benefits including mental ease and response flexibility. This is the first paper to examine meditative mindful tourist experiences in tourism contexts and to explore their antecedents and consequences.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Demography, Geography, Planning and Development
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- A mindful shift: an opportunity for mindfulness-driven tourism in a post-pandemic world (2020, background): “…domain, mindfulness has been recognized for its beneficial effects on tourist wellbeing and transformative influences on tourist experiences (Chen et al., 2017; Kirwin et al., 2019; Loureiro et al., 2019), as well as for its potential impact on the industry’s sustainability agenda and its…”