Volume 31(1)
EDITORIAL
MELANIE SMITH and CATHERINE KELLY
1
Wellness Tourism
ARTICLES
CAROL J. STEINER and YVETTE REISINGER
5
Ringing the Fourfold: A Philosophical Framework for Thinking about Wellness Tourism
MELANIE SMITH and CATHERINE KELLY
15
Holistic Tourism: Journeys of the Self?
XINRAN Y. LEHTO, SALLY BROWN, YI CHEN and ALASTAIR M. MORRISON
25
Yoga Tourism as a Niche Within the Wellness Tourism Market
TOMAS PERNECKY and CHARLES JOHNSTON
37
Voyage Through Numinous Space: Applying the Specialization Concept to New Age Tourism
CHRIS DEVEREUX and ELIZABETH CARNEGIE
47
Pilgrimage: Journeying Beyond Self
JENNIFER LEA
57
Experiencing Festival Bodies: Connecting
Massage and Wellness
HARALD PECHLANER and ELISABETH FISCHER
67
Alpine Wellness: A Resource-based View
RESEARCH PROBE
FRANCES BROWN
79
Dynamics of Core and Periphery in Tourism: Changing yet Staying the Same!
RESEARCH NOTES/REPORT
LÁSZLÓ PUCZKÓ and MARIN BACHVAROV
83
Spa, Bath, Thermae: What’s Behind the Labels?
PETER W. WILLIAMS and A.M. GILL
92
A Research Agenda for Tourism Amenity
Migration Destinations
JOHN CONNELL
99
Medical Tourism: The Newest of Niches
CONFERENCE REPORT
SUZIE LANE
103
The Canadian Congress on Leisure Research
BOOK REVIEWS
ERIK COHEN
105
Tourism Development: Issues for a Vulnerable Industry Edited by
J. Aramberri and R. Butler
DAVID B. WEAVER
106
Rural Tourism and Sustainable Business
Edited by
D. Hall, I. Kirkpatrick
and M. Mitchell
DEREK HALL
107
Tourism in Western Europe: A Collection of Case Histories Edited by R. Voase
MYRIAM JANSEN-VERBEKE
108
Heritage
and Museums – Shaping National Identity Edited by J. M. Fladmark
SAGAR SINGH
109
The Challenge of Tourism Carrying Capacity Assessment: Theory and Practice Edited by
H. Coccossis and A. Mexa
H. LEO THEUNS
110
Environment and Nature-Based Tourism – An Endeavour
at Sustainability by A. Mitra and K. Chattopadhyay
112
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