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This study investigated constructs and mechanisms of tourist experience that lead to self-reliance for social tourism service beneficiaries focusing on battered immigrant women. To achieve the research objective, a immigrant women’s protection agency, which is operated by the government and has tour programs in a regular basis, was selected. I (as a researcher) participated a tour program, which is operated by the agency, and observed the battered immigrant women. After the tour, 13th of in-depth interview were conducted. The results obtained from the field research were as follows: In order to get tourism status of immigrant women’s protection agencies, a survey was conducted with 17 agencies. The survey showed one-day tour programs were conducted with a frequency of 1 to 7, and one-night or more tour programs were conducted with a frequency of 0 to 3 times. The research participants of this research take part in the one-day tour seven times a year and one-night or more tour twice a year. The research results found that tourism experience influences healing and self-reliance, but the impacts may vary depending on their individual characteristics. All participants experienced ‘healing’ through the tourism program but some of them experienced ‘self-reflection’ and ‘new resolution.’