TY - JOUR AB - 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: VL - 44 IS - 3 SN - 0251-3102 DO - 10.1108/eb058026 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb058026 AU - Witt Christine AU - Witt Stephen F. PY - 1989 Y1 - 1989/01/01 TI - Does health tourism exist in the UK T2 - The Tourist Review PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 26 EP - 30 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -