Tourism and depressive symptoms

Levi, Eyal; Dolev, Tohar; Collins–Kreiner, Noga; Zilcha‐Mano, Sigal

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2018.04.001

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“…A small minority of interviewees indicated a lifetime linkage, operating in both directions simultaneously or successively. This causal direction provides strong evidence to support previous suggestions that outdoor nature and adventure tourism and recreation: (a) could be used as a tool in treating at least some clinically depressed patients (Levi et al, 2018); and (b) can contribute therapeutically to human mental health and psychological well-being (Buckley, 2019).…”

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confidence: 81%

“…They are not always feasible: e.g., if they would require too large an intervention in individual lives (Gottfredson et al, 2015;Frieden, 2017). Thus Levi et al (2018), testing the effects of tourism on mental health patients, were unable to use randomised controls, because patients selected and paid for their own holidays. For the current study, an RCT would need to assign members of a pre-selected group of individuals randomly to different levels or patterns of outdoor tourism, and compare their mental health parameters before and after either tourism or a control activity.…”

Section: Options For Testing Causation: Drawbacks and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The mediating roles of place attachment (Kil et al, 2012;Ramkisson, Smith, & Weiler, 2013) and connectedness to nature (Groulx et al, 2016), and the effects of visit frequency (Choe, Schuett & Sim, 2017;Hardiman and Burgin, 2017) and of cultural differences (Puhakka et al, 2017;Stone & Stone, 2017;Xiao et al, 2017;Xu, Sofield & Li, 2104) have also received attention. There is one study (Levi et al, 2018) which showed that for individuals suffering from clinically diagnosed depression, voluntarily taking part in commercial tours led to improvements for some patients. That study, however, was not related to parks or nature tourism.…”

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confidence: 99%

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

Buckley

2020

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

132

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Park tourism is correlated with better mental health, with high economic value, but some aspects of causal mechanisms have remained unresolved. I interviewed 238 outdoor nature and adventure tourists of all ages and backgrounds, at subtropical national parks in Queensland, Australia. I asked whether they visit parks because they are happy, or they are happy because they visit parks. A large majority, 82%, picked the latter. Of those asked, 87.5% reported short-term emotional benefits; 60%, medium-term recovery from stress; and 20%, long-term changes in worldview. Research priorities include: economic scale; experiential components and commercial design for different market segments; and tests of mental health benefits for tourism more generally.

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confidence: 81%

Section: Options For Testing Causation: Drawbacks and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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

Buckley

2020

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

132

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“…Outcomes included positive emotions, recovery from stress, and changed worldview. Levi, Dolev, Collins-Kreiner, and Zilcha-Mano (2018) conducted repeated clinical interviews, using a psychiatric rating scale, with 14 patients diagnosed with major depressive disorders, who were voluntarily taking part in self-purchased tourism products, of various types. They found that mental health condition improved for some patients, but worsened for others.…”

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

Buckley

Westaway²

2020

Annals of Tourism Research

123

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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 posts. Entirely novel outcomes include: psychological rescue; recognition of a previously missing life component, and flow-on effects to family members. Outcomes reported previously for extreme sports, but not previously for hiking in nature, include psychological transformation. Outcomes also identified previously include: happiness, gratitude, relaxation, clarity and insights, nature appreciation, challenge and capability, and companionship and community effects. Commercial outdoor tourism enterprises can contribute powerfully to the wellbeing of women and families. This will be especially valuable for mental health recovery, following deterioration during COVID-19 coronavirus lockdowns worldwide.

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“…These derive both from contemplative nature tourism ( Chen, Yu, & Lee, 2018 ; Hansen et al, 2017 ; Kobayashi et al, 2018 ; Oh et al, 2017 ), and active adventure tourism ( Buckley, 2020b ; Holland et al, 2018 ; Holmbom et al, 2017 ; Roberts et al, 2018 ). They form one component of research on tourism and wellbeing more generally ( Chen & Li, 2018 ; Lengieza et al, 2019 ; Levi et al, 2018 ; Pyke et al, 2016 ; Smith & Diekmann, 2017 ; Uysal et al, 2016 ). Improved wellbeing has an economic health services value through reductions in costs of poor mental health ( McDaid et al, 2019 ; Patel et al, 2018 ).…”

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

2021

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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 for this health services value is jing hua xin ling , psychological destressing. Here we present the first case where optimal tourist infrastructure is influenced by including mental health. Using a multi-stage, cross-lingual, differential stakeholder method, we analyse conflicts between road- and roadless-access tourism in the very large new Sanjiangyuan National Park, Qinghai, which offers jing hua xin ling to domestic tourists from eastern-seaboard cities. This provides a powerful tourism attraction, and hence economic opportunity, for the region around the park. If these mental health aspects are included, together with their direct and indirect consequences for tourism, then roadlessness is preferable to new roads. Similar infrastructure conflicts occur for park tourism worldwide, and jing hua xin ling can provide a global theoretical framework.

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Tourism and depressive symptoms

Cited by 30 publications

References 9 publications

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

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

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

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

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