Beschreibung:
Chapter 1: Sustainable Tourism, Resilience and Wellbeing Notion -- Chapter 2: Intersection between Health, Wellness and Quality of Life -- Chapter 3: Healing Herbs and Herbal Tourism -- Chapter 4: Wellness in the spa industry: an investigation of hot springs tourism in Australia -- Chapter 5: The Importance of Mindfulness for Tourism Employees -- Chapter 6: Mapping the impact of motorcycle tourism in trans-Himalayas: A study on alternative livelihood creation in rural Ladakh, India -- Chapter 7: Transformative Potential of Sustainable Scuba Dive Tourism -- Chapter 8: Impact of Hybrid Word of Mouth on Consumer Behavior -- Chapter 9: Overtourism: A Potential Outcome in Contemporary Tourism-I -- Chapter 10: Overtourism: A Potential Outcome in Contemporary Tourism-II -- Chapter 11: Transformative Learning and Experiences and their Role in Promoting Wellbeing and Quality of Life -- Chapter 12: Conclusion: Building Sustainable Transformative Quality of Life Frameworks.
This volume examines progress in sustainable and resilient development of niche forms of tourism from a health and wellbeing perspective. It also aims to offer deep and innovative insights on the supporting role of non-pharmaceutical interventions to enhance resilience and wellbeing of visited and visiting communities. A comparative and critical discourse of the role of hard medicine is also offered, from both a core and supplementary perspective, particularly, from eudaimonic and physiologically restorative standpoints. Furthermore, indigenous non-pharmaceutical interventions and spiritual healing mechanisms are discussed in the context of their potential to facilitate long term immunity and happiness. The book conceptually situates health as a fourth pillar of sustainability, and examines its role in stimulating long-lasting transformations rooted in positive psychology, inner transformation and sustainable consumption of organic productsand services. It designs an evolving transformational ‘Quality of Life’ paradigm that strengthens the foundations of health/wellbeing-based sustainable development initiatives and resilience of tourism systems. The work will be of interest to academic, professional, and various public and private stakeholders of tourism such as destination marketing organizations, policy makers, hospitality industries, tour operators, host communities, NGOs, and government agencies.