The spa and wellness industry is a growing multi-trillion dollar a year global business.
Research is lacking regarding motivations to patronize a spa along with the benefits and …

This study surveyed 1562 wellness tourists in Finland, the St. Petersburg area, and
Lithuania to explore what were their motivations for taking a wellness trip, to investigate what …

Natural hot springs tourism is one of the least researched areas in tourism literature. This
research aims to observe tourist loyalty to natural hot springs tourism through the roles of …

Responding to the research gap in cross-cultural studies in wellness tourism this study aims
to increase the understanding about the differences in wellness tourists' service preferences …

As an increasing number of people in affluent societies are trending toward more health-
conscious lifestyles, tourism consumer behavior has changed considerably, especially in the …

Self-determination theory (SDT) asserts that satisfying individuals' basic psychological
needs–autonomy, relatedness, competence (ARC)–would affect their behavioural …

Results Warp PLS was used to analyse the data. The hypothesis H1-H4 stated for this study
are accepted as the significance is p< 0.01, the beta coefficients of the models associated …

Purpose This study intend to investigate a theoretical model looking at how particular tourist
emotions, such as “joy,”“love,” and “positive surprise,” might predict their behavior by looking …

Purpose Recently, wellness tourism has gained popularity in alternative medicinal practices.
Alternative medicinal practices are mostly endemic and have evolved through generations …

This study explores how motivational factors such as relaxation, health and beauty
treatments, escapism, and self-development impact tourist satisfaction and word-of-mouth …