The Sustainable Development of Organic Agriculture: The Role of Wellness Tourism and Environmental Restorative Perception

Lin-Lin Xue and Ching-Cheng Shen
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Lin-Lin Xue: College of Science and Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
Ching-Cheng Shen: Graduate Institute of Tourism Management, National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism, Kaohsiung 812, Taiwan

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 2, 1-16

Abstract: This study explored the impact of environmental restorative perception (ERP) on loyalty through place attachment and healthy image within organic agriculture. The visitors to organic agritourism in Hualien County and Taitung of Taiwan were taken as samples and 410 valid questionnaires were collected. LISREL 8.52 and regression analysis were adopted to explore the relationship among different variables. It was found that ERP is helpful for raising place attachment, healthy image, and loyalty to tourist destinations, and the non-toxic and organic sustainable environment created in organic agritourism has a restorative perception that can be used to attract tourists improving their health through travels, contributing to the transition of rural tourism to wellness tourism.

Keywords: healthy tourism; place attachment; healthy image; rural tourism; agritourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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