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http://dx.doi.org/10.12653/jecd.2019.26.2.0069

An Urgent Problem and Challenge of Rural Healing Tourism  

Kim, Kyung-Hee (National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration)
Hwang, Dae-Yong (National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration)
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Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development / v.26, no.2, 2019 , pp. 69-84 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently rural healing tourism has been attracting tourists' interest in relieving mental stress and restoring physical daily life with nature-friendly experience. The purpose of this study is to explore the urgent problems and challenges of rural healing tourism by conducting focus group interview(FGI) with experts. Fourteen experts were interviewed with a semi-structured questionnaire. From the interview data, six themes were identified for direction of healing tourism development. The results of the study are as follows; The area of rural healing tourism can be explained within the framework of health tourism. As for the difference between rural tourism and healing tourism, rural tourism is expected to enhance physical and mental relaxation, daily restoration, and health promotion if rural tourism expects the understanding and experience of agricultural and rural life, and educational effect. The core components of rural healing tourism were operators' expertise, program with rurality, ecological environment, and storytelling. The findings of this paper implicate the underlying dimension of rural healing tourism from a experts' perspective.
Keywords
healing tourism; focus group interview;
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