Health or self‐indulgence? The motivations and characteristics of spa‐goers

By A. H. Mak, Kevin K. F. Wong, R. C. Chang. 2009

227 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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In General Health Professions

1. Yu-Chih Huang
2. Chunchun Chen
3. Mingjie Gao
4. Heesup Han
5. Sunghyup Sean Hyun
6. Graham Brown
7. A. Todorović
8. C. Voigt

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Heesup Han
2. Sunghyup Sean Hyun
3. Yu-Chih Huang
4. Chunchun Chen
5. Mingjie Gao
6. Liang Tang
7. Graham Brown
8. A. Todorović

In Transportation

1. Yu-Chih Huang
2. Chunchun Chen
3. Mingjie Gao
4. Graham Brown
5. Heesup Han
6. Liang Tang
7. A. Todorović
8. Lanlung Chiang

Citations in the corpus

• Investigating wellness tourists’ motivation, engagement, and loyalty: in search of the missing link (2017, background): “Mak et al. (2009) and Chen, Prebensen, and Huan (2008) also identified that relaxation and escape are one of the most importantmotivating factors for tourists’ traveling to wellness tourism destinations.”
• Clustering wellness tourists in spa environment. (2015, methodology): “These findings are also consistent with previous studies (Chen and Prebensen, 2009; Koh et al., 2010; Mak et al., 2009).”
• Wellness tourists: in search of transformation. (2011, background): “In several ways, the six benefit factors identified by the research are reflected in other studies which focus on single wellness tourism segments, particularly in the study examining spa visitors in Hong Kong (Mak et al., 2009).”
• Customer experience, well-being, and loyalty in the spa hotel context: integrating the top-down & bottom-up theories of well-being (2019, methodology): “Following Dimitrovski and Todorović (2015) and Mak, Wong, and Chang (2009), a convenience sampling approach was adopted for the survey between June and August in 2016, consisting of weekdays and weekends.”
• Role of motivations for luxury cruise traveling, satisfaction, and involvement in building traveler loyalty (2018, background): “Motivations, which have long been a critical topic in tourism and consumer behavior (Caber and Albayrak, 2016; Mak et al., 2009), are a significant internal variable that arouses and guides individuals’ behaviors (Crompton and McKay, 1997).”