Abstract:

Health and wellness tourism has become a new trend for travel in the last two decades and gained growing attention from the academic world. However, most of the existing studies are descriptive, focusing on the particular aspects of health and wellness tourism's supply and demand, as well as its political economic analysis. There is still a lack of theoretical explanation for the mechanism how tourists improve their health and wellbeing during their travels. This paper proposes that the concept of ‘therapeutic mobilities’ should be adopted to understand the phenomenon of health and wellness tourism so as to resolve the dilemma of lacking theoretical perspectives and contributions in current health tourism research. The conceptualization of therapeutic mobilities provides a theoretical perspective for understanding the relations between mobilities, place and health, and therefore it can be applied to the tourism research field to examine how tourism mobilities promote people’s health and wellbeing. Meanwhile, the context of travel can further enhance the depth and breadth of therapeutic mobilities theory. The integration of health tourism and therapeutic mobilities will advance the intersection of tourism geography and health geography, providing a deeper understanding of mobilities, place and health.

Key words: health tourism, wellness tourism, therapeutic landscape, therapeutic mobilities, cultural context

摘要：

健康與養(yǎng)生旅游在近20年得到了快速的發(fā)展,也越來越受到學術界的重視。然而已有的相關研究多為描述型研究,主要關注健康與養(yǎng)生旅游的供給特征、需求特征和政治經(jīng)濟學分析,很少有研究對旅游促進游客身心健康的機制作出理論解釋。本文提出應該借鑒健康地理學中“康復性流動”的概念來理解健康與養(yǎng)生旅游的現(xiàn)象,突破目前健康與養(yǎng)生旅游研究缺乏理論視角和理論貢獻的困境?？祻托粤鲃永碚摓槔斫饬鲃?、地方和健康提供了理論視角,可應用到健康與養(yǎng)生旅游研究中解釋旅游流動促進健康的內在機制,同時,其理論深度和廣度也可以在旅游的情境中進一步完善和豐富。這兩者的結合可促進旅游地理學和健康地理學的交叉,進一步推進對地方、流動與健康關系的認識。

關鍵詞: 健康旅游, 養(yǎng)生旅游, 康復性景觀, 康復性流動, 文化情境

CLC Number: 

F59

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