The emerging concept of travel therapy in health science: Will it be applied to tourists visiting sub-frigid climate zones?
Jun Wen1
Danni Zheng2
Fangli Hu3
1.School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, Perth 6027, Australia2.Department of Tourism, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China3.Centre for Precision Health Edith Cowan University, Perth 6027, Australia
摘要：Have you ever thought that taking a tourism-related trip could contribute to your well-being or even improve your health status? Have you considered that tourism research could play a role in health science by showcasing new ways of thinking? Tourism scholars have recently contemplated tourism's place in public/global health[1] as a means of enriching the well-being of people living with conditions such as dementia. A seminal study using an interdisciplinary approach[2] integrated expertise in tourism, psychology, marketing, and medical science and proposed tourism as a dementia intervention based on positive psychology. This study established a conceptual model encompassing four tourism experience components (affective, cognitive, conative, and sensorial) and 12 non-pharmacological dementia interventions (environment, mealtimes, Montessori, validation therapy, cognitive stimulation, music therapy, exercise, psychological intervention, reminiscence therapy, sensory stimulation, simulated presence therapy, and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) as a foundation for further empirical investigation[2]. To our knowledge, no other work in tourism or medicine has thus far explored the relationship between travel and dementia treatment. The research has attracted widespread media coverage[3-5] and attention from academia and industry (e.g., audiences in health care and tourism). The article, together with associated reports and opinion pieces[6-7], amassed 724 media mentions globally between June and August 2022, reaching a potential audience of more than 514 million and an estimated advertising space rate of $4755283 based on Meltwater feed statistics.
机标关键词：sciencetravelconceptwillappliedclimateemerginghealth
论文发表日期：2022-10-30
在线出版日期：2025-08-15（本平台首次上网日期，不代表文献的发表时间）
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