Book chapter
The impact of Korea’s nature-based recreation settings on tourists’ emotions, satisfaction and subjective happiness
Nature Tourism, pp.34-45
Routledge
2017
Abstract
According to the Attention Restoration Theory, perceived environmental restorativeness can restore exhausted directed attention without the expenditure of any attention (Berto, 2005; Kaplan, 1995). The perceived environmental restorativeness in nature has been shown to have a greater attention restoration effect than other restorative environments. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of nature-based activities, a part of health tourism, on the subjective happiness of tourists by applying the Attention Restoration Theory. Modern people feel psychological fatigue caused by the expenditure of directive attention in city life, and they try to restore their directive attention through natural environments. Following this desire, modern people come to seek nature-based tourism. Thus, by targeting participants in nature-based activities, this study examines their impact on subjective happiness.
Details
- Title
- The impact of Korea’s nature-based recreation settings on tourists’ emotions, satisfaction and subjective happiness
- Authors
- Timothy J Lee (Author) - Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, JapanJinok Susanna Kim (Author) - Kyung Hee University, South Korea
- Contributors
- Joseph S Chen (Editor)Nina K Prebensen (Editor)
- Publication details
- Nature Tourism, pp.34-45
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2017
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781315659640
- ISBN
- 9781138961739
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451375102621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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