Breaking Stereotypes, Building Hospitality: Mindfulness Improves Host-Tourist Relation

Integrating mindfulness and motivated information processing theories, we examine how and when residents’ mindfulness nurtures pleasurable host-tourist relations. With time-lagged data from 429 Americans, we found that mindfulness fosters resident self-transcendence, which then engenders resident hospitality while mitigating tourist negative stereotype. Taking tourists' perspective enhances resident mindfulness' effect on self-transcendence.