New Eyes: A Journey for Self-Revealing

• Main Authors: Chin I Chen, 陳靜怡
• Other Authors: Lichang Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30318913489516279747

碩士 === 國立高雄應用科技大學 === 觀光與餐旅管理系 === 99 === The purpose of the research is to find out independent travelers’ spiritual transformative progress after their travels. From the viewpoints of independent travelers, the study interprets the effects of their spiritual growth process from independent travel’s personal experiences. I use qualitative research to invite sixteen experienced independent travelers and proceed in-depth interviews. The study is trying to generalize the factors which affected inner spiritual’s growth process and the spiritual growth process in different external factors’ stimulations. According to the research purposes, collection of relative literature, and comprehensive analysis of interview information are provided. The study uses transformative learning theory as the basic framework to develop independent travelers’ spiritual transformative mode. The research discover brings the acquired of new viewpoints back to original life through re-examining the travel. It brings assistance for work, relationships and life. The research also found out "People are very important factors in a travel experience. It has significant influence to the viewpoint transformation within a travel. The research also discovers the fact from analyzing chart: No matter what reasons people have to travel, they will have spiritual changes in the end. After completing to analyze the thesis, we reverse thinking and get three questions：(1.) The reason why independent travel is popular. (2.) In preach independent travel nowadays, what are the reasons preventing people from the travels? (3.) Does it have to find out the significances of life or acquire the opportunities of change through independent travels? At last, the research brought up Spiritual transformative process charts to illustrate the changes of independent travelers’ spiritual growth processes, and offer some related proposals.