CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING EXPERIENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY IN TOURISM

Manica Casandra-Mariana
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Manica Casandra-Mariana: THE BUCHAREST UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMIC STUDIES, ROMANIA

Annals - Economy Series, 2025, vol. 4, 213-219

Abstract: This research presents the main considerations regarding the experiential psychotherapy in tourism and the beneficial effects for tourists, especially for pilgrims, resulting from each soul journey. As an increasing number of people turn to psychotherapists to find that much-coveted inner peace, experiential psychotherapy in tourism is a way of human transformation for body and soul but also a way to gain many benefits from tourism experiences. The concept and the approach are holistic, the emphasis being on living the emotion and the present experience, which allows people to become aware of their own perceptions, emotions, thoughts and feelings. The research was carried out for three months, on a sample of 62 tourists who participated in cultural and religious trips. The research objective is to exemplify the personal transformation of each tourist as a continuous personal development. The research methodology of this study was observation, descriptive method and experimental method using a quantitative research tool, the questionnaire. The main results refer to beneficial and multiplying effects that can be achieved by each tourist following participation in cultural and religious trips and programs through the practice of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and curative theology with a major therapeutic role in improving people's health. The importance of the study is far-reaching. Concerned with the healing and well-being of every human, religion, medicine and tourism can constitute an exceptional scientific sum for healing, development and soul enrichment of any human, through the use of various therapeutic means for the purpose of human recovery.

Keywords: Cultural and religious tourism; experiential psychotherapy in tourism; health; spirituality; pilgrimage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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