Study On Impacts Of Religious Cultural Tourism On Tourists’ Mental Health

Traveling activities have the benefits to tourists’ relaxation and gaining the wellbeing in living.The cultural and natural environments of tourism destination have effects on tourists’ behavior,emotional experiences and mental health.Nowadays,the high attention rate of personal mental health helps the raising frequent traveling activities in people’s daily life.Religious sites as tourism culture attractions can offer tourists special traveling experience with unique culture and influence their mental health and wellness.There are abundant articles studied on religious culture tourism destination,while the amount of tourism geography articles studied tourists of religious culture tourism destination is small,and there is almost none studied on tourists’ mind health of religious culture tourism destination.The aim of this thesis is searching for and validating the impacts of tourists’ mental health in Wudang Mountain which is the typical Taoism scared place in the view of relationship between human and destination of geography,and giving suggestions about how to develop religious culture wellness tourism destination by those impacts.This paper,first of all,summarized the Chinese and foreign literature of religious culture tourism,tourists’ mental health and defined some key concepts.Then made assumptions and searched for the impacts of tourists’ mental health with the combination of researches of exports’ literature reviews and tourism projects in Wudang Mountain,tourists’ arrangements,motivations and activities in this place.Questionnaire survey was used in collecting tourists’ information for this thesis as tourists were sightseeing in Wudang Mountain,and this thesis used SPSS 19 to analyze the data information and search for the factors and outcomes of tourist’ mental health in Wudang Mountain activity.The results showed that the Wudang Mountain activity experience did remarkably improve tourists’ anxiety and depression statement and enhance their mental health level.The influencing factors on the changes of tourists’ mental health are distributed in tourists’ common features,personality traits,tourism motivations and traveling experience.Wudang Mountain religious and cultural tourism activity has positively impacts on tourists’ mental health;tourists’ personality characteristics,such as agreeableness,conscientiousness,extraversion and neuroticism,contribute to the improvement of mental health of religious and cultural tourists;tourists who have the motivation of health preservation,enjoying natural scenery or making friends to visit relatives and friends benefit more for their mental health;tourists who go sightseeing and hiking,experience health preservation activities or learn from others or narrate Taoist culture knowledge would gain a better mental health;the higher the tourist satisfaction of Wudang Mountain tourism experience,the greater the mental health benefits.Finally,according to the analysis of the influencing factors on the improvement of tourists’mental health,the strategies and suggestions are proposed that the construction of Wudang Mountain’s infrastructure and cultural facilities should be improved,and it should build a characteristic health-preserving cultural system,so that Wudang Mountain can strengthen the attraction and influence of religious and cultural tourism.