健康旅游研究综述

健康旅游近年来呈现快速发展的趋势,理论界也开始对这个领域充满兴趣,但是国内对于健康旅游还缺乏基础性的研究。文章从健康旅游的定义、分类、发展历史、发展现状和发展趋势等几个层面对相关文献进行了综述,讨论了理论界对健康旅游定义的争论和健康旅游不同的分类框架,总结了世界不同地区特别是亚洲的健康旅游发展现状,指出了中国和欧洲或美洲健康旅游产业的对比、选择健康旅游产品的消费者需求趋势预测、健康旅游设施或目的地研究等未来的研究领域。

Literature review of health tourism study

Health tourism is developing rapidly recent years,which attracts many interests of researchers.However,it still needs the elementary research on it in China.This article reviews the literature of health tourism research in the aspects of definition,classification,history,present situation and trends.The definition and classification of health tourism are discussed.It also summarizes the development of health tourism in the world especially in Asia.The future research areas are also put forward including the comparative study of health tourism industry of China and Europe or America,the demand tendency forecast of health tourism products and the study of health tourism facilities or destination development.