Health Tourism
The purpose of this paper is to discuss what is meant by health tourism. This paper seeks to explore the relationships between travel, tourism and health in the UK and abroad. This study is intended to provide a concise analysis of the spa and health tourism as a product in both Europe and USA. It also briefly discuss the recent rise of medical tourism, the result suggests that the market for the medical tourism will continue to expand. Another objective of this paper is to briefly examine the minor and major health problems that typically face the international traveler and how these associated health issues can in principle, be prevented from adequate health precautions.
As the health tourism market in United Kingdom is similar to that in North America, The English Tourism Council adopted the North America definition: health tourism encompasses those products and services that are designed to promote and enable their customers to improve and maintain their health through a combination of leisure, recreational and educational activities in a location removed the distraction of work and home (ETC, 2002). Laws (1996) regarded health tourism as leisure taken away from home, where one of the objectives is to improve ones state of health. In another word, is an activity or leisure selected by choice, or undertaken by people to escape from their usual work or home environment as a consequence of enhancing their health. As Douglas, Douglas and Derrett (2001) suggested, the activities or leisure is often related to health spas or visits to seaside resort, the authors also identified that younger travellers may satisfy their health related needs by seeking at adventure and sports tourism destinations.
As Mueller and Kaufmann (1999) noted wellness is pursued solely by healthy people which is the creation and maintenance of health and...
More Travel Descriptions
essays:
Tourism impacts on environment, economy and society
... afterwards. Tourism starts to grow rapidly from this situation. In tourism, the tourism destination plays ... World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) define tourism as it comprises the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for ...
This assey has a lot of information about tourism and the tourism industry!
... on tourism, for use by the Regional Tourist Boards. § Marketing the area. § Upkeep of historic building § Public health and ...
Tourism - Discuss how changes in air transport since the 1950's are reflected in both leisure and business travel trends
... of travelling between two destinations is by air. The airplane had a revolutionary impact on tourism from ... of marketing activity in business and leisure travel markets. Although ...
Tourism is one of the largest industries in the UK.
... heriage tourism may be: "Heritage tourism" refers to the tourism markets and ... cultural activities as one of the top five reasons for traveling" www.nasaa-arts.org/artworks/cultour. But there seems to be some problems in ...
Analysis of Wales tourism.
... consumer analysis ·Tourism is becoming increasingly competitive, emerging tourism destination in Asia, the Americas and Eastern Europe have made it more difficult for the UK to maintain its Market share of global tourism. ·Similarly Wales is in direct competition against home ...
Tourism.
... particular activities selected by choice and undertaken outside the home environment. Tourism may or may not involve overnight stay away from home". (AIEST and the Tourism Society, 1981) *"Conception ally, tourism might be seen as an origin-linkage-destination system ...
The Great Barrier Reef and the Environment and Social Impacts of Tourism
... tourist resorts on the quality of life of local residents; and (4) the economic impact on the environment, e.g. the impact of development on local taxpayers (Environmental Impact, 2007). The environmental impacts of tourism at ...
Ecotourism Operators
... of travelers to new environments and cultures, while minimizing impact and supporting conservation efforts. The ecotourism market The World Tourism Organization (WTO) estimates that there were more than 663 million international travelers in ...