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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 the push motivation may perceive the high value of health and wellness tourism [13,42].”
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Metadata
- 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
- 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
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management › Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management › 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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