Handbook on Tourism, Public Health and Wellbeing

Edited by Robin Nunkoo, Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Research Methods, Department of Management, University of Mauritius, Mauritius, Jun Wen, Lecturer of Tourism, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, Australia and Metin Kozak, Professor of Tourism, School of Communication, Kadir Has University, Turkey

Contents:

Foreword xiv
1 Rethinking the role of tourism in modern society through the
lenses of the public and general wellbeing 1
Jun Wen, Robin Nunkoo and Metin Kozak
2 The relationship between public health and medical tourism 15
Anna Białk-Wolf
3 Mobility tourism as a guarantee for health, wellbeing and
sustainability 36
António Juan Briones-Peñalver, Pedro Fernandes da Anunciação
and Tamara Saura Acosta
4 An assessment of health as a soft infrastructure for tourism:
a case study of Mauritius 56
Boopen Seetanah, Narvada Gopy-Ramdhany and Reena Bhattu Babajee
5 Engineering resilience, circularity and healthfulness in the
tourism industry 66
Mahendra Gooroochurn
6 Social thermalism and relaunch projects in the name of
wellness tourism 82
Carmen Bizzarri and Donatella Strangio
7 Tourism and spirituality: building the tourism of the future 96
Fabio Carbone, Barbara Antonucci, Maria João Silveira, Mahdieh
Shahrabi and Mafalda Patuleia
8 Recovering from public health crises: lessons from Hong
Kong’s tourism and hospitality industry 106
Hiu Yan Lee and Kevin Yin Kiu Leung
9 Positive health impacts of tourism 123
Maksim Godovykh, Alan Fyall and Abraham Pizam
10 Respoguide: integrating sustainability and wellbeing in
tourism through an innovative platform 138
Paris Tsartas, Triantafyllos Falaras, Konstantinos Giannopoulos,
Charalampos Papoutsakis, Georgia Paraskevopoulou and Christina
Sofia Rachanioti
11 Tourism and social development: the case of Africa 149
Sheereen Fauzel, Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur and Jeevita Matadeen
12 Public health and wellbeing in tourism policy: myths and reality 170
Wieslaw Alejziak
13 Tourism as a promoter of social welfare 204
Zehra Saltık and Orhan Akova
14 Tourist behaviour during disease outbreaks 221
Bushra Choudhary and Abdul Qadir
15 Tourist behavior during disease outbreaks and wellbeing 234
Gülseren Yurcu and Zeki Akıncı
16 Past health crises and resilience in tourism: looking to
a post-COVID-19 future 252
Andreia Pereira, Cláudia Seabra and Ana Caldeira
17 COVID-19 and tourism development: an Indian Ocean island
perspective 267
Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur, Marie-Annick Lamy-Giner and
Sheereen Fauzel

Index