The GSTC in Health Tourism

Found this old Powerpoint on the computer and thought I'd share.

 Bristow, R., Yang, W. & Lu, M. (2010). An Application of the Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria in Health Tourism. In: Watts, Clifton E., Jr.; Fisher, Cherie LeBlanc, eds. Proceedings of the 2009 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-66. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 97-103. http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/35650.

Zombie Preparedness CDC

We head back to the (virtual) classroom after labor day.  Many universities are attempting to meet face to face, while others have already said to forget it.  

Unfortunately, with K-12 and Universities heading back to the classroom I am expecting a rise in Covid-19 cases.

So, some lessons:

Paper masks are one time use ONLY, throw away after that single use.

Cloth masks can be used for one day only, so put in the wash daily.

Save the face shields and medical masks for the front line people.

Wash you hands frequently.

Sanitize your hands with an excessive amount of sanitizer to get all the nooks and crannies saturated and then let dry.

 

This is serious stuff my friends.  After all, in a tongue and check announcement, we even need to watch out for Zombies.

 

 

 

Tourism Geographies and Covid-19

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Reset: Visions of travel and tourism after the global COVID-19 transformation of 2020

VOLUME 22 (3) - July 2020

1. INTRODUCTION: Visions of travel and tourism after the global COVID-19 transformation of 2020 - Guest Editors: Alan A. Lew, Joseph M. Cheer, Michael Haywood, Patrick Brouder & Noel B. Salazar (free access)
   
2. Transforming the (tourism) world for good and (re)generating the potential ‘new normal’ - Irena Ateljevic
   
3. “We can’t return to normal”: committing to tourism equity in the post-pandemic age - Stefanie Benjamin, Alana Dillette & Derek H. Alderman 
4. Reset redux: possible evolutionary pathways towards the transformation of tourism in a COVID-19 world - Patrick Brouder
5. COVID-19, indigenous peoples and tourism: a view from New Zealand - Anna Carr  (free access)
   
6. Regenerative tourism needs diverse economic practices - Jenny Cave & Dianne Dredge
   
7. Human flourishing, tourism transformation and COVID-19: a conceptual touchstone - Joseph M. Cheer (free access)
   
8. Cancelling March Madness exposes opportunities for a more sustainable sports tourism economy - J. A. Cooper & Derek H. Alderman
9. Ecological grief generates desire for environmental healing in tourism after COVID-19 - Émilie Crossley
   
10. How should tourism education values be transformed after 2020? - Johan Edelheim
    
11. Post COVID-19 ecological and social reset: moving away from capitalist growth models towards tourism as Buen Vivir - Phoebe Everingham & Natasha Chassagne
    
12. COVID-19 is expanding global consciousness and the sustainability of travel and tourism - Adriana Galvani, Alan A. Lew & Maria Sotelo Perez (free access)
    
13. Pandemics, transformations and tourism: be careful what you wish for - C. Michael Hall, Daniel Scott & Stefan Gössling (free access)
    
14. A post-COVID future: tourism community re-imagined and enabled - K. Michael Haywood (free access)  
    
15. Socialising tourism for social and ecological justice after COVID-19 - Freya Higgins-Desbiolles (free access)  
    
16. The COVID-19 crisis as an opportunity for escaping the unsustainable global tourism path - Dimitri Ioannides & Szilvia Gyimóthy (full open access)
    
17. Reconnecting tourism after COVID-19: the paradox of alterity in tourism areas - Dominic Lapointe
     
18. COVID-19 is an unnatural disaster: Hope in revelatory moments of crisis - Mary Mostafanezhad (free access)  
19. Travel and [adventure] tourism after COVID-19 – business as usual or opportunity to reset? - Sanjay K. Nepal
20. COVID-19: from temporary de-globalisation to a re-discovery of tourism? - Piotr Niewiadomski
    
21. Critical tourism scholars: brokers of hope - Tomas Pernecky
    
22. Lessons from COVID-19 can prepare global tourism for the economic transformation needed to combat climate change - Bruce Prideaux, Michelle Thompson & Anja Pabel (free access)  
    
23. Reconsidering global mobility – distancing from mass cruise tourism in the aftermath of COVID-19 - Luc Renaud
    
24. The COVID-19 crisis: Opportunities for sustainable and proximity tourism - Francesc Romagosa (free access)  
    
25. The transformational festival as a subversive toolbox for a transformed tourism: lessons from Burning Man for a COVID-19 world - Ian Rowen
    
26. A mindful shift: an opportunity for mindfulness-driven tourism in a post-pandemic world - Uglješa Stankov, Viachaslau Filimonau & Miroslav D. Vujičić
    
27. The novel spaces and power-geometries in tourism and hospitality after 2020 will belong to the ‘local’ - Lucia Tomassini & Elena Cavagnaro
    
28. COVID-19 leads to a new context for the “right to tourism”: a reset of tourists’ perspectives on space appropriation is needed - Sabrina Tremblay-Huet
    
29. From high-touch to high-tech: COVID-19 drives robotics adoption - Zhanjing Zeng, Po-Ju Chen & Alan A. Lew
    
30. CONCLUSION: Reflections and discussions: tourism matters in the new normal post COVID-19 - Guest Editors: Patrick Brouder, Simon Teoh, Noel B. Salazar, Mary Mostafanezhad, Jessica Mei Pung, Dominic Lapointe, Freya Higgins Desbiolles, Michael Haywood, C. Michael Hall & Helene Balslev Clausen (free access)  

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Sea, Sun, Sand and …. Selecting Surgery: an Exploration of Health, Medical and Wellness

We recently published an exploratory investigation into travel behavior or health, medical and wellness tourists found in Human Geographies.  It reflects the findings of a sample of actual tourists and the motivations behind the travel to a foreign destination for care. I need to also credit my co-author Wen-Tsann Yang (Feng-Chia University) and fellow Ph.D. graduate of the Geography Department at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale for his efforts in this research.

The Abstract:

Mass tourism facilities depend on repeat visitors as well as attracting new first time tourists. As these traditional sun and sand holiday destinations mature, tourism promoters are bundling opportunities to attract a different kind of tourist. Since many of these resorts are all-inclusive facilities and include a Spa, one potential expansion may be to market to health, medical or wellness tourists. Geographic research in travel and tourism has found that individuals either repeat visits to the same destination or diversify their choices. This paper highlights the decision-making process of tourists and how it may be related to the niche market of health, wellness, and medical tourism. It uses data from a survey that gathered the travel patterns and motivations, and socio-demographics of medical tourists. Consumers who exhibit different travel behavior rank hospital accreditation and American hospital affiliation more important than those who repeat travel behavior - See more at: http://www.humangeographies.org.ro/volume-9-issue-2-2015/921-abstract#sthash.bJDUFRpD.dpuf

Is health-care tourism sustainable?

Is it sustainable?  Well, do the local citizens have access to health care.  Let us explore that a bit.

There are no reliable records of the numbers on non-medical health care professionals globally, so the data on the number of physicians per 1,000 citizens in each country from the World Health Organization (2011) will be used to identify and quantify health provisions.  Globally the median density of health care professionals is 1.15 physicians per 1,000.  

Cuba (6.4 doctors per 1,000) and Greece (6 doctors per 1,000) are found next in physician density. Cuba should come as no surprise since this country has had a long and strong history of health tourism (Goodrich 1993b; Van Wilkinson 2008).  Likewise Greece, long known for the medicinal properties of its mineral springs has the benefit of the climate and bioclimatic conditions (Didaskalou et al. 2004). Progressing down the physician density list are two other countries, Malaysia and India, both known for health tourism.  Malaysia is one of the primary destinations in southeast Asia that has had the benefit of a deliberate marketing strategy by both the private and public sectors (Leng 2007).  And we find that the density of health care professionals in Malaysia (0.94) is comparable to Grenada and Peru (0.98, and 0.92 respectively).  Further west, India’s ranking of 0.60 is similar to the availability of doctors in Iraq, Morocco and Honduras (0.69, 0.62, and 0.57 respectively).