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Health & medical tourism

In: The Long Tail of Tourism

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  • Vivien Breitrück
  • Elena Nunn

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When reading about health and medical tourism one might think that both terms apply to the same category of tourism, based on: caring for one's health, stress relief, personal wellbeing, fitness and body attractiveness. Indeed, many times these two terms are used as synonyms for one another. For a better understanding of the whole subject, the separation between health tourism and medical tourism is vital to show that both categories are not the same but yet related to one another. Both trends have emerged due to changes in demographics, today's education, standard of living, social behaviour, and lifestyle.

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  • Vivien Breitrück & Elena Nunn, 2011. "Health & medical tourism," Springer Books, in: Alexis Papathanassis (ed.), The Long Tail of Tourism, chapter 7, pages 57-67, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-8349-6231-7_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-8349-6231-7_7
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