Tourism as a dementia treatment based on positive psychology

J Wen, D Zheng, H Hou, I Phau, W Wang - Tourism Management, 2022 - Elsevier
No research in tourism or medicine has addressed the potential relationship between travel
and the medical treatment of dementia. Given tourism's increasingly important role in …

Exploring the relationships between heritage tourism, sustainable community development and host communities' health and wellbeing: A systematic review

C Brooks, E Waterton, H Saul, A Renzaho - PLoS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Previous studies examining the impact of heritage tourism have focused on specific
ecological, economic, political, or cultural impacts. Research focused on the extent to which …

Mental health rescue effects of women's outdoor tourism: A role in COVID-19 recovery

R Buckley, D Westaway - Annals of tourism research, 2020 - Elsevier
Mental and social health outcomes from a portfolio of women's outdoor tourism products,
with~ 100,000 clients, are analysed using a catalysed netnography of> 1000 social media …

Nature tourism and mental health: parks, happiness, and causation

R Buckley - Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Poor mental health costs about a tenth of global GNP. For many people, nature exposure
improves mental health. This generates a newly recognised health service value for national …

Tourism and mental health: Foundations, frameworks, and futures

R Buckley - Journal of Travel Research, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Tourism contributes to mental health. We could: recognize, measure, value, and market
those contributions; analyze components and design products to maximize mental health …

The role of tourism in healthy aging: An interdisciplinary literature review and conceptual model

F Hu, J Wen, I Phau, T Ying, J Aston, W Wang - Journal of Hospitality and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rapid aging is already one of the most significant trends of the 21st century, and this
demographic shift poses enormous challenges for society. There is a community-wide effort …

Tourist mental health drives destination choice, marketing, and matching

MA Cooper, R Buckley - Journal of Travel Research, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Leisure tourism, including destination choice, can be viewed as an investment in mental
health maintenance. Destination marketing measures can thus be analyzed as mental …

Vulnerable populations with psychological disorders in tourism: Methodological challenges and recommended solutions for empirical research

D Zheng, J Wen, M Kozak, I Phau, H Hou, W Wang - Tourism Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Vulnerable groups, including travel-eligible tourists with medical conditions (eg, early-and
mid-stage dementia), represent an emerging niche market in the tourism industry that has …

The principle of entropy increase: A novel view of how tourism influences human health

F Hu, J Wen, D Zheng, T Ying… - Journal of Travel …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The principle of “entropy increase” is a universal law describing a natural progression from
order to disorder. This paper is innovatively the first to take the principle as a theoretical …

Mental health key to tourism infrastructure in China's new megapark

R Buckley, L Zhong, S Martin - Tourism Management, 2021 - Elsevier
The global economic value of parks through improved mental health of tourists has been
estimated at about ten times greater than direct park tourism expenditure. The Chinese term …