Women report that nature tourism provides recovery from psychological trauma
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Westaway, Diane OAM
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Using qualitative netnography of a USA social media group with >6000 members, we show that nature tourism can provide psychological rescue and rehabilitation, at levels comparable to clinical counselling and chemotherapies, for women who have suffered trauma, abuse, injury and illness. Diagnosis, design, and duration of nature tourism psychotherapies deserve further testing, for potential application in post-pandemic mental health recovery worldwide.
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Tourism Recreation Research
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This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Tourism Recreation Research, 30 Apr 2021, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2021.1917892
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Tourism
Tourism resource appraisal
Human geography
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Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
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Women
nature
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Buckley, R; Westaway, DOAM, Women report that nature tourism provides recovery from psychological trauma, Tourism Recreation Research, 2021