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- Title
Tourism and Semantic Therapy in the Philosophy of Existentialism .
- Authors
Bastenegar, Mehrnoosh; Ghamari, Rezvan
- Abstract
Problem Statement: Humans’ lived experiences show that individuals need meaning to connect with their “being”. However, according to the philosophy of existentialism, there is no pre-designed plan, leading to the challenge of meaning creation in a meaningless world. Some existentialist thinkers, such as Camus and Sartre, believed that man must create and discover the meaning of his life, not the meaning assigned to them by God or nature. After such a creation, they dedicate themselves to realizing that meaning to reduce the feeling of loss and regret of the passage of life. Tourism is supposed to give meaning to life while also contributing as an informative and pleasant activity. Research objective: Conceptualization is an undeniable necessity in our country, especially in the fields of humanities and social sciences. Tourism is one of the areas experiencing a lack of attention in this regard due to its focus on the re-examination of the current concepts and theories while failing to consider novel alternatives. Therefore, the present study aims to foster interdisciplinary knowledge and conceptualization across the intended subject to illustrate the role of different types of tourism in current human semantic therapy. Research method: This interdisciplinary and qualitative research was an interpretive phenomenology conducted using library studies, along with in-depth and semi-structured interviews. Conclusion: According to the findings of this study, interdisciplinary concepts can be discovered in two disciplines and specialized discourses of tourism and psychotherapy, yielding a different level of cognition and knowledge. Based on the results, experience and worldly-wise, as one of the ways to make sense of life, had the highest rank, followed by hedonism and self-actualization in the second and third ranks of semantic therapy in different types of tourism, respectively. Also, public interest tourism had the potential to establish the highest number of sense-making ways, followed by community-based tourism, visiting friends and relatives (VFR) tourism, and ethnic/nomadic tourism.
- Publication
Bagh-e Nazar, 2022, Vol 19, Issue 112, p115
- ISSN
1735-9635
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22034/BAGH.2022.326033.5105