The Routledge handbook of health tourism
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The Routledge handbook of health tourism
（Routledge international handbooks）
Routledge, 2017
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Handbook of health tourism
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The Routledge Handbook of Health Tourism provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the philosophical, conceptual and managerial issues in the field of health tourism with contributions from more than 30 expert academics and practitioners from around the world. Terms that are used frequently when defining health tourism, such as wellbeing, wellness, holistic, medical and spiritual, are analysed and explored, as is the role that health and health tourism play in quality-of-life enhancement, wellbeing, life satisfaction and happiness. An overview is provided of health tourism facilities such as thermal waters, spas, retreats and wellness hotels and the various challenges inherent in managing these profitably and sustainably. Typologies are given not only of subsectors of health tourism and related activities but also of destinations, such as natural landscapes, historic townscapes or individual resources or attractions around which whole infrastructures have been developed. Attention is paid to some of the lifestyle changes that are taking place in societies which influence consumer behaviour, motivations and demand for health tourism, including government policies, regulations and ethical considerations.
This significant volume offers the reader a comprehensive synthesis of this field, conveying the latest thinking and research. The text is international in focus, encouraging dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and areas of study and will be an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in health tourism.
Table of Contents
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Preface
1 Introduction
Melanie Kay Smith and Laszlo Puczko
PART I History and trends
2 History of spa tourism: spirituality, rejuvenation and socialisation
Warwick Frost and Jennifer Laing
3 An overview of lifestyle trends and their impacts on health tourism
Melanie Kay Smith
4 Leading taste: the influence of trendsetters on health tourism
Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost
PART II Happiness, wellbeing and quality of life
5 Between tourists: tourism and happiness
Ondrej Mitas, Jeroen Nawijn and Barbara Jongsma
6 The impact of tourist activities on tourists' subjective wellbeing
Muzaffer Uysal, M. Joseph Sirgy, Eunju Woo and Hyelin (Lina) Kim
7 Finding flow during a vacation: using optimal experiences to improve health
John K. Coffey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
PART III Health, tourism and society
8 Healthy tourism
Robyn Bushell
9 Social tourism and health
Anya Diekmann and Scott McCabe
10 A life-course analysis of older tourists and their changing patterns of holiday behaviour
Gareth Shaw, Isabelle Cloquet, Paul Cleave, Andrzej Tucki, Maria Joao F. Custodio and Alessandra Theuma
PART IV Holistic wellbeing
11 The psychology of spa: the science of 'holistic' wellbeing
Jeremy McCarthy
12 Journeys of the self: the need to retreat
Catherine Kelly and Melanie Kay Smith
13 Community as holistic healer on health holiday retreats: the case of Skyros
Dina Glouberman and Josee-Ann Cloutier
14 Yoga, transformation and tourism 168
Melanie Kay Smith and Ivett Sziva
PART V Medical tourism: ethics, regulation and policy
15 The ethics of medical travel
David Reisman
16 The environmental externalities of medical and health tourism: implications for global public health
Colin Michael Hall
17 Legal and ethical issues of cross-border reproductive care from an EU perspective
Markus Frischhut
18 The need to professionalise aestheticians
Kathryn Gallagher and Marion Joppe
PART VI Medical tourism: products and services
19 Choosing the good hospital: helping medical tourists make informed decisions
Sharon Kleefield
20 Medical hotels: an approach to sustainable health in the leisure industry
Kai Illing
21 A Disney strategic approach to patient/guest services in Hospitality Bridging Healthcare (H2H) and medical tourism and wellness
Frederick J. DeMicco
22 Balneology and health tourism
Melanie Kay Smith and Laszlo Puczko
PART VII Health destination development and management
23 Enhancing the competitiveness of a wellness tourism destination by coordinating the multiple actor collaboration
Telle Tuominen, Susanna Saari and Daniel Binder
24 Cross-border health tourism collaborations: opportunities and challenges
Henna Konu and Melanie Kay Smith
25 Destination and product development rested on evidence-based health tourism
Georg Christian Steckenbauer, Stephanie Tischler, Arnulf Hartl and Christina Pichler
26 Developing a wellness destination: a case study of the Peak District
Sarah Rawlinson and Peter Wiltshier
PART VIII Therapeutic and healing landscapes
27 'Places of power': can individual 'sacred space' help regain orientation in a confusing world? A discussion of mental health tourism to extraordinary natural sites in the context of Antonovsky's 'sense of coherence' and Maslow's 'hierarchy of needs'
Harald A. Friedl
28 Rhythmic revitalisations: attuning to nature for health and wellbeing
Edward H. Huijbens
29 Relationships between emotion regulation seeking, programme satisfaction, attention restoration and life satisfaction: healing programme participants
Timothy J. Lee and Jinok Susanna Kim
30 Health tourism and health promotion at the coast
Peter Kruizinga
PART IX Nature, health and tourism
31 Rural wellbeing tourism destinations - demand side viewpoint
Juho Pesonen and Anja Tuohino
32 Protected natural areas as innovative health tourism destinations
Sonia Ferrari and Monica Gilli
33 Understanding the links between wellness and Indigenous tourism in western Canada: critical sites of cultural exchange
John S. Hull and Courtney W. Mason
34 Conclusion
Melanie Kay Smith and Laszlo Puczko
Index
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