Baltic Health Tourism: Uniqueness and Commonalities

Smith, Melanie

doi:10.1080/15022250.2015.1024819

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“…Therapeutic landscapes are referred to (1) facilities that offer conventional western medical treatments and alternative health treatments, such as naturopathy, cupping therapy, art therapy, mud therapy, etc. (Williams, 1998;Smith, 2015;Majeed et al, 2017aMajeed et al, , 2019a, (2) built attractions, e.g., spa hotels, hospitals, community gardens, etc. (Oster et al, 2011;Adongo et al, 2017;Majeed et al, 2018;Townsend et al, 2018;Ramkissoon, 2020), and (3) travel destinations with natural features (Palka, 1999) which provide restorative experiences alongside the feeling of comfort and gratitude to individuals seeking health and wellbeing (Hansen et al, 2017).…”

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Health, Wellness, and Place Attachment During and Post Health Pandemics

Majeed

Ramkissoon

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Therapeutic landscapes encapsulate healing and recovery notions in natural and built environmental settings. Tourists’ perceptions determine their decision making of health and wellness tourism consumption. Researchers struggle with the conceptualization of the term ‘therapeutic landscapes’ across disciplines. Drawing on extant literature searched in nine databases, this scoping review identifies different dimensions of therapeutic landscapes. Out of identified 178 literature sources, 124 met the inclusion criteria of identified keywords. We review the contribution and the potential of environmental psychology in understanding tourist behavior to promote health and wellness tourism destinations in a post COVID-19 context. We develop and propose a conceptual framework comprising: (1) perceived goodness of therapeutic landscapes, (2) health and wellness consumption, (3) COVID-19 pandemic perceived health and wellness risk, (4) place attachment, and (5) re-visitation. We propose measurement scales and discuss implications and major issues in the immediate and post the COVID-19 pandemic to inform future research.

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Health, Wellness, and Place Attachment During and Post Health Pandemics

Majeed

Ramkissoon

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…It seems that the Croatian and Lithuanian DMOs perceive not only their HTD potential but also the possibility to increase their competitive advantage in CEEC which, in the opinion of Al-Amin et al (2011), is in line with the issue of the management of health and medical care areas. The development and implementation of the industry management strategy and setting up a public private partnership (Ganguli and Ebrahim, 2017), including cluster activities (Smith, 2015) is advantageous to this. This may be clearly seen through the cooperation between Croatia (the only European state) and the Medical Tourism Associationan international organization, an affiliate member of the UNWTO, which supports destination branding.…”

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Destination Management Organizations and Health Tourism Visual Identification in Central and Eastern Europe

Borzyszkowski¹,

Lubowiecki-Vikuk²

2019

ERSJ

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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify and diagnose the activities of national destination management organizations (DMOs) from Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) in the scope of a visual identification of health tourism destinations. Design/Methodology/Approach: The investigations were conducted on three stages: (1) a verification was performed of the existence of national DMOs in CEEC; (2) when making targeted selection, a questionnaire interviews were performed with 16 DMO representatives; (3) desk research was conducted, i.e. an analysis of the contents of the official websites/ portals and social media of DMOs. Findings: The role of health tourism is to grow in the coming years in the opinion expressed by the DMOs examined. The organizations under examination try to address this trend by indicating that health tourism, even at its current stage, constitutes a fairly important tourism product. The current status of the visual identification of HTD created by DMOs in the states under examination is rather poor. A small part of organizations identify themselves directly with the health tourism product. A significant part of the organizations do not undertake any activities in this area. In turn, those that do undertake such activities rely primarily on fairly common elements such as: an internet website, possibly a logo and an advertising slogan. Practical Implications: The results may serve as a point of departure for taking adequate activities aimed promotion at the health tourism product not only by other national DMOs but also by similar organizations on the regional or local level. Originality/Value: The variety of health tourism products available at CEEC puts new tasks for DMOs. The article highlights the important role of the entity that is responsible for the management of the HTD brand.

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“…Many governments use synonymously the term of medical tourism and health one [Smith, 2015]. Smith and Puzckó [Smith, Puczkó, 2009) were among the first to try to bridge the concepts of wellness and health tourism, and discussed diverse aspects related to wellness, e. g. spirituality, happiness, quality of life and the wellbeing.…”

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Sustainable Tourism Supranational Policies and the Wellbeing — Gaps and Challenges From the Hosts’ and the Guests’ Perspective

Dłużewska

Rodzoś

2018

MONITORING OF PUBLIC OPINION

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The year 2017 was declared by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. Tourism is seen as a “driver of development and peace, promoting the harmonious co-existence of people from all countries” (Beijing Declaration 2016). A principle of sustainable tourism is to “build sustainable cities and communities”. From this perspective, tourism should support the wellbeing of all actors involved. Wellbeing of hosts, should be achieved when sustainable tourism guidelines are fulfilled. Wellbeing of guests is necessary to make any destination attractive for tourism. The question posed in this paper, however, challenges that view. The paper presents a theoretical analysis of wellbeing in relation to sustainable tourism and to hosting and guest communities. The first section talks about wellbeing conceptual backgrounds including Social Indicators, index of life quality based on values, subjective wellbeing or responsible wellbeing one. The second section focuses on the analysis of wellbeing in sustainable tourism conceptual background, including the differences between the guidelines provided by WTO (2005), and the latest guidelines published by UNWTO ((United Nations World Tourism Organization)) and UNGA in 2015. The third section juxtaposes wellbeing conceptual background with tourism, the most prominent gaps and challenges of wellbeing regarding hosting communities and tourists.

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Baltic Health Tourism: Uniqueness and Commonalities

Cited by 34 publications

References 21 publications

Health, Wellness, and Place Attachment During and Post Health Pandemics

Health, Wellness, and Place Attachment During and Post Health Pandemics

Destination Management Organizations and Health Tourism Visual Identification in Central and Eastern Europe

Sustainable Tourism Supranational Policies and the Wellbeing — Gaps and Challenges From the Hosts’ and the Guests’ Perspective

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