What is wellness tourism? Definition and meaning
Healthcare tourism refers to travel for health and wellness reasons.
DRI International defines healthcare tourism as “all travel involving the pursuit of maintaining or improving one’s personal health”.
The healthcare tourism economy includes all the expenditures that tourists make while traveling to improve or maintain their health.
The Institute of Global Health divides the wellness tourism market into two types of travelers:
- Primary healthcare tourists – those primarily motivated by health to make a trip. Their destination is based on its healthcare services. An example is someone taking a yoga retreat of wellness ...