engleski

Health tourism

Current tourism product still only partially and inadequatly satisfies complex set of current tourism demand when it comes to the product development ofholistically understood helath whether it is maintenance of health or health improvement. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to define health tourism and its current position as a part of tourism economy based on the analysis of health tourism in Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany and Italy. For the purpose of the analysis a theoretical model is developed that gives special attention to the type of the health tourism. Dimension of the model are: contact with service providers, classification according to the characteristics of health tourism accommodations, functional systems realting to the direct and indirect regulations of the natural remedies for the needs of the health and medical tourism and organisations involved in provision of the health tourism such as spas, spa resorts and health tourism destinations.

health tourism; spa tourism; medical tourism; natural remedies

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