The Principle of Entropy Increase: A Novel View of How Tourism Influences Human Health

• Published in: Journal of travel research Vol. 64; no. 3; pp. 752 - 761
• Main Authors: Hu, Fangli, Wen, Jun, Zheng, Danni, Ying, Tianyu, Hou, Haifeng, Wang, Wei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.03.2025; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Impact analysis; Personal health; Tourism; Travel; entropy; travel therapy; interdisciplinary research; sociomateriality; human health; paradigm shift

The principle of “entropy increase” is a universal law describing a natural progression from order to disorder. This paper is innovatively the first to take the principle as a theoretical basis for assessing how tourism influences human health from a sociomateriality perspective. Despite a growing e...