Health and Wellness Tourism
1
2017-2018
02027046
Tourism and Leisure
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
10.0
Elective
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
1) Lectures; 2) Research project on a topic chosen by the student; 3) Observation of an active health and wellness tourism project (technical visits).
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the meaning of thermal activities and their importance the evolution of travel and tourism;
- Critically analyze the process of appropriation of thermal activities by different players;
- Understand the evolutionary framework of the concept of health and wellness and its association with tourism;
- Identify the driving forces associated with the development of health and wellness tourism
- Interpreting the evolutionary process of the use and meaning of the body in contemporary societies and establish its relationship with the medical health and tourism segment;
- Understand the motivations/meanings of different segments of health and wellness tourism.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1. Hydrotherapy as precursor activity for Health and Wellness Tourism
1.1 Thermal Spaces as a tourist destination (18th and 19th centuries);
2. Rise and decline of hydrotherapy and bathing tourism (19th and 20th centuries
2.1 The growth of the thermal sector in Portugal: activity and user profile;
2.2 Social Hydrotherapy: Portugal and Europe
3. Health and wellness Tourism: concept and expanding demand
3.1 The concept of health and the concept of wellness, evolution and complementarity;
3.2 Rebalancing health. Concept of prevention and health promotion in the context of hydrotherapy activities;
3.3 Health Tourism: medical and non-medical. Fundamentals of supply and demand;
3.4 The responsibility of the individual in relation to individual levels of health and well-being (healthism);
4. Health and Wellness Tourism: future prospects;
4.1 Strategic Tourism Plan, critical analysis.
Head Lecturer(s)
Paulo Nuno Maia de Sousa Nossa
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Other: 10.0%
Report of a seminar or field trip: 10.0%
Research work: 80.0%
Bibliography
Borman, E. (2004).Healthtourism. Wherehealthcare, ethics, and the state collide.British Medical Journal. Nº328, pp. 60–61
Ferreira, C. (1994). Os usos sociais do termalismo: práticas, representações e identidades sociais dos frequentadores das termas da Curia. Tese de Mestrado. FEUC
Gustavo, N. S. (2010). Os novos Espaços de Lazer, Turismo e saúde em Portugal, o caso dos SPA. Tese de Doutoramento. FLUC.
Medeiros, C., L.; Cavaco, C. (2008) Turismo de Saúde e Bem-estar. Termas, spas termais e talassoterapia. Univ. Católica Portuguesa.
Smith, M.; Puczkó, L. (2009) Health and Wellness Tourism. Elsevier
Ramos, A.V. (2005) O termalismo em Portugal. Dos factores de obstrução á revitalização pela dimensão turística. Tese de Doutoramento. DEGEI. Univ. Aveiro.
Connell, J. (2006) Medical tourism: Sea, sun, sand and … surgery.Tourism Management.Vol. 27, I 6, Dec.