‘.sometimes you’ve just got to get away.’On trekking holidays and their therapeutic effect.
peer reviewed A traditional Romantic fix for the stress and strain of the everyday has been the idea of ‘getting back to nature’, exploring places of natural grandeur and beauty based on the belief in nature’s therapeutic agency on the traveller. This article introduces a theoretical framework that...
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ftunivluxembourg:oai:orbilu.uni.lu:10993/8866 2024-04-21T08:05:28+00:00 ‘.sometimes you’ve just got to get away.’On trekking holidays and their therapeutic effect. Olafsdottir, Gunnthora 2013-06-26 https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/8866 https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797613490379 en eng Sage http://tou.sagepub.com/content/13/2/209.full.pdf+html urn:issn:1741-3206 https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/8866 info:hdl:10993/8866 doi:10.1177/1468797613490379 scopus-id:2-s2.0-84881584620 wos:000344189400006 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Tourist Studies, 13 (2), 209-231 (2013-06-26) dwelling nature based tourism therapeutic affect embodiment walking subjectivity nature-society relations Iceland tourism Social & behavioral sciences psychology Human geography & demography Sciences sociales & comportementales psychologie Geographie humaine & démographie journal article http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 info:eu-repo/semantics/article peer reviewed 2013 ftunivluxembourg https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797613490379 2024-03-27T14:10:17Z peer reviewed A traditional Romantic fix for the stress and strain of the everyday has been the idea of ‘getting back to nature’, exploring places of natural grandeur and beauty based on the belief in nature’s therapeutic agency on the traveller. This article introduces a theoretical framework that offers a way to explore how touristic spaces are lived within a human–non-human co-constituted affective process. It then engages with the spaces of nature-based tourism and reports findings from an ethnographic study on British-based trekking holiday to Iceland. These findings suggest that the emotions and therapeutic affect that have traditionally been reported from spending time in nature are relational outcomes; they depend both on nature’s performance and on what the individual contributes to the relations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland University of Luxembourg: ORBilu - Open Repository and Bibliography Tourist Studies 13 2 209 231 |
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peer reviewed A traditional Romantic fix for the stress and strain of the everyday has been the idea of ‘getting back to nature’, exploring places of natural grandeur and beauty based on the belief in nature’s therapeutic agency on the traveller. This article introduces a theoretical framework that offers a way to explore how touristic spaces are lived within a human–non-human co-constituted affective process. It then engages with the spaces of nature-based tourism and reports findings from an ethnographic study on British-based trekking holiday to Iceland. These findings suggest that the emotions and therapeutic affect that have traditionally been reported from spending time in nature are relational outcomes; they depend both on nature’s performance and on what the individual contributes to the relations. |
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