Medical, Health and Wellness Tourism Research—A Review of the Literature (1970–2020) and Research Agenda
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Medical, health and wellness tourism and travel represent a dynamic and rapidly growing multi-disciplinary economic activity and field of knowledge. This research responds to earlier calls to integrate research on travel medicine and tourism. It critically reviews the literature published on these topics over a 50-year period (1970 to 2020) using CiteSpace software. Some 802 articles were gathered and analyzed from major databases including the Web of Science and Scopus. Markets (demand and behavior), destinations (development and promotion), and development environments (policies and impacts) emerged as the main three research themes in medical-health-wellness tourism. Medical-health-wellness tourism will integrate with other care sectors and become more embedded in policy-making related to sustainable development, especially with regards to quality of life initiatives. A future research agenda for medical-health-tourism is discussed.
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Tourists with push motivation may perceive high value of health and wellness tourism.
“Tourists with the push motivation may perceive the high value of health and wellness tourism [13,42].”
From Health and Wellness Tourists’ Motivation and Behavior Intention: The Role of Perceived Value (2023) · cites this paper as [13]
Section 4.6, “Markets: Demand and Behavior” (page unavailable), says perceived value is a key predictor of tourists’ intentions to travel for medical-health-wellness purposes. It does not say that tourists with push motivation perceive high value, so the claimed link between push motivation and perceived value is unsupported. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe pull motivation of travelers may positively influence their perceived value of health and wellness tourism.
“The pull motivation of travelers also may positively influence their perceived value of health and wellness tourism [13,37].”
From Health and Wellness Tourists’ Motivation and Behavior Intention: The Role of Perceived Value (2023) · cites this paper as [13]
Section 4.6 (Markets: Demand and Behavior; page unavailable) says perceived value predicts tourists’ intentions and discusses factors affecting destination choices. It does not say that travelers’ pull motivation positively influences their perceived value; searches for that relationship and for destination attributes affecting perceived value found no supporting passage. (LLM, conf=0.73)
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- Authors
- Zhong, L., Deng, B., Morrison, A. M., Coca-Stefaniak, J. A., & Yang, L.
- Affiliations
- Beijing International Studies University (CN)
- University of Greenwich (GB)
- Greenwich Business School, Old Royal Naval College, University of Greenwich, London SE10 9SL, UK
- Corresponding author
- Morrison, Alastair M.
- Venue
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2021-10-16
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 20
- Pages
- 10875
- ISSN
- 1660-4601 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8536053
- OpenAlex
- W3205968825
- Cited by
- 151
- References
- 104
- Citations by year
- 2026: 41 · 2025: 43 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 3.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (University of Greenwich) (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (71673015)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Social Sciences › Demography › Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Keywords
- medical tourism, wellness tourism, travel medicine, destination development, tourism policy, sustainable development, quality of life, research agenda
- MeSH terms
- Tourism, Quality of Life, Bibliometrics, Medical Tourism, Policy
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