Wellbeing outcomes of nature tourism: Mt Barney Lodge
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Westoby, Ross
McNamara, Karen E
Fleming, Christopher
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Nature-based tourism may provide a well-structured format to facilitate opportunities for wellness. This research collected in-depth data from 72 tourists to explore the holistic wellbeing outcomes of experiences at the Mt. Barney Lodge in Queensland, Australia. We found that the Lodge offers a multitude of benefits across wellbeing dimensions. Such research indicates that nature is a public health resource, and that nature-tourism enterprises have the potential to deliver nature therapies. Creating carefully planned packages that deliver both nature contact and connectedness, offer self-development and transformative impacts and are partnered with mechanisms to encourage consistent nature contact, may be integral to the lasting wellbeing of people and planet.
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Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights
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3
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2
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© 2022 The authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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Clissold, R; Westoby, R; McNamara, KE; Fleming, C, Wellbeing outcomes of nature tourism: Mt Barney Lodge, Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights, 2022, 3 (2), pp. 100077