College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.
College of Business Administration, Jiangsu Vocational Institute of Commerce, Nanjing 211168, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Feb 26;18(5):2299. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18052299.
Visiting natural environments could restore health and contribute to human sustainability. However, the understanding of potential linkages between restoration of visitors and nature-based tourism remains incomplete, resulting in a lack of orientation for researchers and managers. This study aimed to explore how visitors achieve restoration through nature by analyzing published literature on tourism. Using a systematic review method, this study examined destination types, participant traits, theoretical foundations, and potential restorative outcomes presented in 34 identified articles. A new framework that synthesizes relevant research and conceptualizes the restorative mechanisms of nature-based tourism from a human-nature interaction perspective was developed. Owing to the limitations in the theories, methods, cases, and the COVID-19 pandemic, interdisciplinary methods and multisensory theories are needed in the future to shed further light on the restoration of visitors through nature-based tourism. The findings provide a theoretical perspective on the consideration of nature-based tourism as a public-wellness product worldwide, and the study provides recommendations for future research in a COVID-19 or post-COVID-19 society.
探访自然环境可以促进健康并有助于人类可持续发展。然而，人们对游客恢复和基于自然的旅游之间潜在联系的理解还不完整，这导致研究人员和管理者缺乏方向。本研究旨在通过分析旅游方面的文献，探索游客如何通过自然实现恢复。本研究采用系统综述方法，考察了 34 篇已确定文章中呈现的目的地类型、参与者特征、理论基础和潜在的恢复结果。从人与自然相互作用的角度，提出了一个综合相关研究并将基于自然的旅游的恢复机制概念化的新框架。由于理论、方法、案例的局限性以及 COVID-19 大流行的影响，未来需要采用跨学科方法和多感官理论，以进一步阐明通过基于自然的旅游实现游客的恢复。研究结果从理论上为将基于自然的旅游视为全球公共健康产品提供了视角，并为 COVID-19 或后 COVID-19 社会的未来研究提供了建议。
