TY - BOOK ID - 77910990 TI - Health and Wellness Tourism AU - Erfurt-Cooper, Patricia, AU - Cooper, Malcolm PY - 2009 VL - 40 SN - 1282466720 9786612466724 1845411137 9781845411138 9781845413637 1845413636 9781845411121 9781845411114 1845411129 1845411110 PB - Bristol, UK Blue Ridge Summit, PA DB - UniCat KW - Health resorts. KW - Medical tourism. KW - Health tourism KW - Tourism KW - Health resorts, watering-places, etc. KW - Health spas KW - Spas KW - Watering places (Health resorts) KW - Health facilities KW - Resorts KW - Health resorts KW - global spa and wellness industry. KW - health and wellness concept. KW - health tourism. KW - hot spring tourism. KW - hot springs. KW - natural geothermal springs. KW - natural hot springs. KW - spa industry. KW - wellness concept. KW - wellness tourism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77910990 AB - Geothermal springs constitute a major tourism resource, providing spectacular settings, recreation facilities, a recognised value in treatments beneficial for health and wellness, a sense of heritage and adventure, and links with the natural environment. Health and wellness tourism accounts for a significant proportion of the world’s tourism consumption, with components ranging from hot spring bathing for leisure and recreation, through mineral water use in health treatments under the supervision of highly specialised medical professionals, to water treatments in the wellness and beauty therapy sector and the use of mineral water for drinking purposes. This makes it an economically and socially important area of tourism demanding in-depth analysis. This book explores health and wellness tourism from a range of perspectives including usage, heritage, management, technology, environmental and cultural features, and marketing. ER -