Mindful tourist experiences: A Buddhist perspective

Lynn I-Ling Chen, Noel Scott and Pierre Benckendorff

Annals of Tourism Research, 2017, vol. 64, issue C, 1-12

Abstract: This paper distinguishes between the concepts of socio-cognitive mindfulness applied in a number of tourism studies and meditative mindfulness derived from a Buddhist philosophy. An operational definition of meditative mindful tourist experiences is proposed based on forty-three semi-structured interviews involving 77 episodes of meditative mindful experiences. The paper also proposes a framework of meditative mindfulness in tourism. The framework identifies a number of antecedents to meditative mindful experience episodes and reveals several psychological and physical benefits including mental ease and response flexibility. This is the first paper to examine meditative mindful tourist experiences in tourism contexts and to explore their antecedents and consequences.

Keywords: Awareness; Meditative mindfulness; Memory; Mental ease; Tourist experience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2017.01.013

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