Post-COVID wellness tourism: providing personalized health check packages through online-to-Offline services

Huang, Yu-Ting; Lee, Tzong-Ru; Goh, Alexis P.I.; Kuo, Jehn-Hwa; Lin, Wea‐Lung; Qiu, Si-Ting

doi:10.1080/13683500.2022.2042497

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“…Scholars also took the tourists of red ginseng hot springs as the survey object and found that the spa experience can help improve the physical fitness of tourists ( Choi et al, 2015 ). The medical services in wellness tourism play an important role in secondary prevention and preventative healthcare ( Huang et al, 2022 ).…”

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Dimensions of the health benefits of wellness tourism: A review

Liao

Zuo

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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The benefits of wellness tourism have been recently noted by researchers and industry representatives. This study examined the health dimensions of these benefits posited by a large array of interdisciplinary studies from 2002 up to the present. Open coding was used to conduct an inductive evaluation to classify these health benefits. Results showed four main dimensions, namely, physical fitness, psychological fitness, quality of life (QOL), and environmental health; however, these dimensions need further investigation. Physiological health benefits can also be demonstrated through future experiments, which can further focus on empirical research on the psychological benefits and its overall effect on the QOL. This study contributes to the current literature by providing novel theoretical foundations and subsequently aids practitioners to understand customers better and convey their marketing messages to tourists more effectively.

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Dimensions of the health benefits of wellness tourism: A review

Liao

Zuo

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…After the COVID-19 pandemic, people would pay more attention to the risk information and they could join health tourism in the post-pandemic period to enhance their personal physical and mental health 25 , 63 . It has also been suggested that organizations offer personalized health tourism packages to their employees accordingly, invoking a sense of Perceived Organizational Support (POS) among them 64 . In conclusion, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in consumers’ awareness of self-protection and safety and hygiene, changes in travel psychology and demand, and the promotion of a new health tourism industry 65 .…”

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Analysis of spatial-temporal pattern, dynamic evolution and influencing factors of health tourism development in China

Wang,

Feng,

et al. 2023

Sci Rep

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The evaluation index system is constructed based on the connotation and characteristics of health tourism. Using the entropy method, Thiel index, exploratory spatial data analysis method, spatial Markov chain and spatial econometric model, research is carried out around the development index, difference status, spatial-temporal pattern, dynamic evolution and influencing factors of health tourism. The following results were drawn: (1) The development index of health tourism in China is low, but the development speed is fast. The inter-regional development index shows an eastern China > central China > western China pattern, and the development speed exhibits a western China > central China > eastern China situation. (2) In the overall difference in China’s health tourism development, the intra-regional difference is consistently higher than the inter-regional difference. Among the three major regions, the overall difference between eastern China and western China is always higher than that of central China. (3) The development of health tourism in China is positively correlated in the global space, with some local spatial clustering. (4) The dynamic evolution of health tourism development in China shows part of the “Matthew effect” characteristics, with an obvious spatial spillover effect. (5) Various influencing factors produced widely varying direct, indirect and total effects on health tourism development in China, eastern China, central China and western China. Finally, based on the results of the above empirical analysis, policy recommendations to promote the development of health tourism in China are proposed.

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