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Health and wellness tourism is booming around the world. The by-products covered by this segment are: climatism, thalassotherapy,thermalism, SPA, medical tourism, aesthetic tourism, assisted residences, as well as accessible/inclusive tourism for all. This book also analyzes the relationship between healthcare and happiness, healthy aging/anti-aging and cruises. This work takes a holistic, inter/transdisciplinary, complex and ecological approach. In this paradigmatic perspective, more than five hundred books are analyzed, as well as dozens of magazines from various thematic areas. For this fact, the target population of this book is enclosing, intended for who have to authorize, supervise, design and manage health and wellness tourism companies, doctors, health authorites, investors, entrepreneurs, architects, managers, hotel technicians and tourism, physiotherapists, hydrotherapists, massage therapists, aesthetic professionals, marketers, policy makers, professors, students and the general public, in particular clients/users of these tourism products.
About the author
João Viegas Fernandes - professor of Health and Wellness Tourism at University of Algarve and several other Universities in Portugal, Spain and Brazil.Filomena Maurício Fernandes - public Health Doctor, specialist in Health and Wellness Tourism.The authors have lectured and published five books and several articles in Brazil, Portugal and USA.
