Wellness tourism: Market analysis of a special health tourism segment and implications for the hotel industry

By Hansruedi Mueller, E. L. Kaufmann. 2001

620 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Food Science, General Health Professions, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

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How researchers see this paper

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In Food Science

1. V. C. Heung
2. A. Todorović
3. D. Dimitrovski
4. Chung-Hsien Lin
5. D. Kucukusta
6. B. Sparks

In General Health Professions

1. Yu-Chih Huang
2. Chunchun Chen
3. Mingjie Gao
4. V. C. Heung
5. Graham Brown
6. A. Todorović
7. C. Voigt
8. D. Dimitrovski

In Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

1. V. C. Heung
2. Graham Brown
3. A. Todorović
4. D. Dimitrovski
5. Chung-Hsien Lin
6. D. Kucukusta
7. B. Sparks

Citations in the corpus

• Wellness tourists: in search of transformation. (2011, background): “In contrast, wellness tourists go on vacation to maintain or improve their health and well-being ( Muller and Lanz Kaufmann, 2001”
• Clustering wellness tourists in spa environment. (2015, background): “Thesefindings are similar to theprevious researchofwellness tourist segmentation (Koh et al., 2010; Mueller & Kaufmann, 2001).”
• Effects of Cuisine Experience, Psychological Well-Being, and Self-Health Perception on the Revisit Intention of Hot Springs Tourists (2014, background): “Moreover, literature has shown that tourists enjoying hot springs tend to express emotional happiness (Kaspar, 1990; Mueller & Kaufmann, 2001) and exhibit a distinct sense of psychological well-being (Goodrich, 1994; Hobson & Dietrich, 1994).”
• Customer experience, well-being, and loyalty in the spa hotel context: integrating the top-down & bottom-up theories of well-being (2019, background): “…that spas in particular, integrating water based treatments and health oriented services, are inseparably connected with the pursuit of health and well-being as one of the most renowned forms of wellness tourism (Dryglas & Salamaga, 2017; Hall, 2011; Mueller & Kaufmann, 2001; Smith & Puczkó, 2014).”
• Wellness Tourism in China: Resources, Development and Marketing (2013, methodology): “They de fi ned wellness tourism as ‘ the sum of all the relationships and phenomena resulting from a journey and residence by people whose main motive is to preserve or promote their health ’ (Mueller and Kaufmann, 2001, p. 7).”