‘I had more time to listen to my inner voice’: Zen meditation tourism for Generation Z

IF 3.3 4区管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourist Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-04 DOI:10.1177/14687976231189833

Jiayu Wu, Juan Tang, Elizabeth Agyeiwaah

引用次数: 0

Abstract

With much academic attention to experiential learning in on-site tourism experiences, the benefits of Zen meditation tourism on Generation Z after their re-entry into daily secular life remains largely unexplored. Drawing on experiential learning theory, this study explores the benefits experienced by participants after Zen meditation tourism in three stages including reflection, learning results, and active experimentation. Employing phenomenology-based ethnography, six consecutive rounds of online face-to-face interviews were conducted with 12 informants who were continuously traced after attending a Zen camp. The study findings revealed long-term positive benefits in three aspects of this generational cohort. First, Zen practices tend to be fading yet abiding after the Zen camp which continues sporadically into daily life. Second, socialisation is continuously progressive; but self-growth is complicated and unstable. Theoretical and practical implications of these novel findings are discussed.

查看原文本刊更多论文

“我有更多的时间倾听我内心的声音”：Z世代的禅修旅游

随着学术界对现场旅游体验中的体验式学习的高度关注，禅修旅游对Z世代重返日常世俗生活后的好处在很大程度上仍未得到探索。本研究借鉴体验式学习理论，从反思、学习结果和积极实验三个阶段探讨参与者在禅修旅游后所体验到的好处。采用基于现象学的民族志，对12名参加禅营后被持续追踪的线人进行了连续六轮的在线面对面采访。研究结果揭示了这一代人在三个方面的长期积极益处。首先，禅宗实践往往在禅宗阵营之后逐渐消失，但仍在持续，禅宗阵营偶尔会延续到日常生活中。第二，社会化是不断进步的；但自我成长是复杂而不稳定的。讨论了这些新发现的理论和实践意义。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Tourist Studies HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

CiteScore

6.90

自引率

4.20%

发文量

期刊介绍： Tourist Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal providing a platform for the development of critical perspectives on the nature of tourism as a social phenomenon through a qualitative lens. Theoretical and multi-disciplinary. Tourist Studies provides a critical social science approach to the study of the tourist and the structures which influence tourist behaviour and the production and reproduction of tourism. The journal examines the relationship between tourism and related fields of social inquiry. Tourism and tourist styles consumption are not only emblematic of many features of contemporary social change, such as mobility, restlessness, the search for authenticity and escape, but they are increasingly central to economic restructuring, globalization, the sociology of consumption and the aestheticization of everyday life. Tourist Studies analyzes these features of tourism from a multi-disciplinary perspective and seeks to evaluate, compare and integrate approaches to tourism from sociology, socio-psychology, leisure studies, cultural studies, geography and anthropology. Global Perspective. Tourist Studies takes a global perspective of tourism, widening and challenging the established views of tourism presented in current periodical literature. Tourist Studies includes: Theoretical analysis with a firm grounding in contemporary problems and issues in tourism studies, qualitative analyses of tourism and the tourist experience, reviews linking theory and policy, interviews with scholars at the forefront of their fields, review essays on particular fields or issues in the study of tourism, review of key texts, publications and visual media relating to tourism studies, and notes on conferences and other events of topical interest to the field of tourism studies.