Mind, Body and Spirit: Health and Wellness Tourism in Asia
Elsevier eBooksPublished 1 January 2008
Jennifer Laing, Betty Weiler
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There is a variety of definitions used in this field, with commentators referring to health tourism, wellness tourism, medical tourism and spa tourism as the more frequently used descriptors where ‘improved health on holiday ... has become the central theme of tourism in an active rather than a passive sense’ (Connell, 2006a, p. 1094). Before considering Asian examples of these forms of tourism, some clarification of these terms is needed.
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