Main description:

In a time of rapid change for travel-related health interventions, this timely Handbook offers critical insights into the interrelationship between tourism, public health, and the wellbeing of local communities and tourists. Written with a global audience in mind, it features cutting-edge interdisciplinary research conducted by leading academics in tourism, public health, wellbeing, and social welfare.

Investigating the nexus between tourism and public health in an era of globalisation, tourism growth and COVID-19, this incisive Handbook rethinks the role of tourism in contemporary society. Chapters explore issues from medical tourism, spiritual health, and sustainability to wellness, social development, and disease outbreaks, providing key insights that will assist diverse stakeholders to better navigate this uniquely challenging time in travel and health promotion. The Handbook addresses the growing risks of international travel and considers how the tourism industry might evolve in the wake of COVID-19 and other crises afflicting modern society.

Cross-disciplinary in scope, this dynamic Handbook makes a crucial contribution to the literature on the consequences of tourism for public health. Its novel analyses of topics related to tourism, public health, wellbeing, and social welfare will be of significant benefit to tourism stakeholders, healthcare practitioners and policymakers.

Contents:

Contents:

Foreword xiv
1 Rethinking the role of tourism in modern society through the
lenses of the public and general wellbeing 1
Jun Wen, Robin Nunkoo and Metin Kozak
2 The relationship between public health and medical tourism 15
Anna Bialk-Wolf
3 Mobility tourism as a guarantee for health, wellbeing and
sustainability 36
Antonio Juan Briones-Penalver, Pedro Fernandes da Anunciacao
and Tamara Saura Acosta
4 An assessment of health as a soft infrastructure for tourism:
a case study of Mauritius 56
Boopen Seetanah, Narvada Gopy-Ramdhany and Reena Bhattu Babajee
5 Engineering resilience, circularity and healthfulness in the
tourism industry 66
Mahendra Gooroochurn
6 Social thermalism and relaunch projects in the name of
wellness tourism 82
Carmen Bizzarri and Donatella Strangio
7 Tourism and spirituality: building the tourism of the future 96
Fabio Carbone, Barbara Antonucci, Maria Joao Silveira, Mahdieh
Shahrabi and Mafalda Patuleia
8 Recovering from public health crises: lessons from Hong
Kong's tourism and hospitality industry 106
Hiu Yan Lee and Kevin Yin Kiu Leung
9 Positive health impacts of tourism 123
Maksim Godovykh, Alan Fyall and Abraham Pizam
10 Respoguide: integrating sustainability and wellbeing in
tourism through an innovative platform 138
Paris Tsartas, Triantafyllos Falaras, Konstantinos Giannopoulos,
Charalampos Papoutsakis, Georgia Paraskevopoulou and Christina
Sofia Rachanioti
11 Tourism and social development: the case of Africa 149
Sheereen Fauzel, Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur and Jeevita Matadeen
12 Public health and wellbeing in tourism policy: myths and reality 170
Wieslaw Alejziak
13 Tourism as a promoter of social welfare 204
Zehra Saltik and Orhan Akova
14 Tourist behaviour during disease outbreaks 221
Bushra Choudhary and Abdul Qadir
15 Tourist behavior during disease outbreaks and wellbeing 234
Gu lseren Yurcu and Zeki Akinci
16 Past health crises and resilience in tourism: looking to
a post-COVID-19 future 252
Andreia Pereira, Claudia Seabra and Ana Caldeira
17 COVID-19 and tourism development: an Indian Ocean island
perspective 267
Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur, Marie-Annick Lamy-Giner and
Sheereen Fauzel

Index