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Health, welness and medical tourism: a conceptual approach
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Nowadays, health, wellness and medical tourism are recognized as one
of the most developed and growing sector of today’s thriving tourism
industry that has increased its activity worldwide, due to a lot of social and
economic circumstancies that leads people to achieve and pursue a
better quality of life. However, these kind of tourism face a multitude of
challenges and one of that challenges is the discrepance on its different
conceptual approaches and definitions.
A literature review on this topic with a descriptive, comparative and
exploratory nature was conducted, building a theoretical framework on
this field of study. Units of meaning for the definition of the concept
categories were elected, which allowed to reflect and sintetize the
different approaches to the topic. This analysis brought other
perspectives of identification and description of distinct themes, including
a few issues about health, wellness, medical tourism, wellbeing and
quality of life.
Therefore, the main goal of this paper is to summarize and clarify this
complex and sweeping concept that assumes in a prominent role in the
global context of tourism and results in a concise overview of the literature
produced on the subject towards a small contribution to a better
understanding of the concept.