Edited by Robin Nunkoo, Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Research Methods, Department of Management, University of Mauritius, Mauritius, Jun Wen, Associate Professor of Tourism, Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau SAR, China and Metin Kozak, Professor of Marketing, School of Communication, Kadir Has University, Turkey

• Contents:Foreword xiv1 Rethinking the role of tourism in modern society through thelenses of the public and general wellbeing 1Jun Wen, Robin Nunkoo and Metin Kozak2 The relationship between public health and medical tourism 15Anna Białk-Wolf3 Mobility tourism as a guarantee for health, wellbeing andsustainability 36António Juan Briones-Peñalver, Pedro Fernandes da Anunciaçãoand Tamara Saura Acosta4 An assessment of health as a soft infrastructure for tourism:a case study of Mauritius 56Boopen Seetanah, Narvada Gopy-Ramdhany and Reena Bhattu Babajee5 Engineering resilience, circularity and healthfulness in thetourism industry 66Mahendra Gooroochurn6 Social thermalism and relaunch projects in the name ofwellness tourism 82Carmen Bizzarri and Donatella Strangio7 Tourism and spirituality: building the tourism of the future 96Fabio Carbone, Barbara Antonucci, Maria João Silveira, MahdiehShahrabi and Mafalda Patuleia8 Recovering from public health crises: lessons from HongKong’s tourism and hospitality industry 106Hiu Yan Lee and Kevin Yin Kiu Leung9 Positive health impacts of tourism 123Maksim Godovykh, Alan Fyall and Abraham Pizam10 Respoguide: integrating sustainability and wellbeing intourism through an innovative platform 138Paris Tsartas, Triantafyllos Falaras, Konstantinos Giannopoulos,Charalampos Papoutsakis, Georgia Paraskevopoulou and ChristinaSofia Rachanioti11 Tourism and social development: the case of Africa 149Sheereen Fauzel, Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur and Jeevita Matadeen12 Public health and wellbeing in tourism policy: myths and reality 170Wieslaw Alejziak13 Tourism as a promoter of social welfare 204Zehra Saltık and Orhan Akova14 Tourist behaviour during disease outbreaks 221Bushra Choudhary and Abdul Qadir15 Tourist behavior during disease outbreaks and wellbeing 234Gülseren Yurcu and Zeki Akıncı16 Past health crises and resilience in tourism: looking toa post-COVID-19 future 252Andreia Pereira, Cláudia Seabra and Ana Caldeira17 COVID-19 and tourism development: an Indian Ocean islandperspective 267Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur, Marie-Annick Lamy-Giner andSheereen FauzelIndex

‘The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked crises in public health and international travel. As the pandemic continues, it is refreshing to see cross-disciplinary work from experts in tourism and public health. This book assumes a tourism-oriented perspective to ponder the travel industry’s role in general wellbeing. The chapters rectify several knowledge gaps between tourism and medical science to encourage stakeholders to explore how travel engagement can shape health promotion and disease prevention.’