Zhong, Lina, Deng, Baolin, Morrison, Alastair ORCID: 0000-0002-0754-1083, Coca-Stefaniak, J. Andres ORCID: 0000-0001-5711-519X and Yang, Liyu (2021) Medical, health and wellness tourism research: a review of the literature (1970–2020) and research agenda. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (20):10875. ISSN 1661-7827 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010875)

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Abstract

Medical, health and wellness tourism and travel represent a dynamic and rapidly growing multi-disciplinary economic activity and field of knowledge. This research responds to earlier calls to integrate research on travel medicine and tourism. It critically reviews the literature published on these topics over a 50-year period (1970 to 2020) using CiteSpace software. Some 802 articles were gathered and analyzed from major databases including the Web of Science and Scopus. Markets (demand and behavior), destinations (development and promotion), and development environments (policies and impacts) emerged as the main three research themes in medical-health-wellness tourism. Medical-health-wellness tourism will integrate with other care sectors and become more embedded in policy-making related to sustainable development, especially with regards to quality of life initiatives. A future research agenda for medical-health-tourism is discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	medical-health-wellness tourism; bibliometric analysis; thematic analysis; research agenda
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Business Faculty of Business > Department of Marketing, Events & Tourism Faculty of Business > Tourism Research Centre
Last Modified:	08 Jun 2022 08:41
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/36619

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