Does health tourism exist in the UK

Abstract

When the theme of the conference was first announced, the term ‘Thermalisme’ was used. We wondered, ‘What is Thermalisme?’ We looked in an English dictionary, but without success ‐ the term was not given. So we started looking further afield. We thought that thermalisme suggests thermal, which in turn lead us to think of thermal springs, which implies spas ‐ perhaps' Eventually we found an article by Cohen (1974) which asks the question ‘Who Is A Tourist?’ In this article, Cohen lists eight ‘partial tourist rôles’ (p. 541), one of which is:

Citation

Witt, C. and Witt, S.F. (1989), "Does health tourism exist in the UK", The Tourist Review, Vol. 44 No. 3, pp. 26-30. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb058026