By Marta Peris-Ortiz, José Álvarez-García

This ebook goals to give a contribution to the literature and reduction in constructing a theoretical and useful framework within the quarter of future health and health tourism. With contributions and learn from varied international locations utilizing a pragmatic method, this booklet is an important resource for college kids, researchers and executives within the health and wellbeing and wellbeing tourism industry.

Recently, there was an elevated curiosity in well-being and well being because of larger lifestyles expectancy, getting older populations, expanding degrees of rigidity between others. during this context, the strategies of well-being, health, attractiveness, rest, and tourism may be mixed to fulfill the desires of individuals looking larger quality-of-life. This has given upward thrust to health and wellbeing tourism, a brand new industry phase that contributes to employment and fiscal development within the new economy.

Health and health tourism includes elements: therapeutics, which seeks to remedy definite illnesses; and leisure and rest. instead to standard tourism, overall healthiness and wellbeing tourism presents a brand new technique of attaining local and native improvement from a demographic, social, environmental and fiscal point-of-view. It contributes to vacationer locations’ monetary development, performing as a pillar to help different complementary actions. in brief, future health and well being tourism contributes to employment progress and neighborhood wealth, contributes to tourism seasonality, promotes caliber in tourism locations, is helping create new vacationer prone with excessive worth, promotes institution of overseas cooperation networks, and yields a few extra advantages. that includes a number of courses and tasks from varied areas, with an emphasis on thermal and thalassotherapy institutions, this quantity sheds mild in this rising industry section and its implications for fiscal and coverage development.