Health, wellness and medical tourism - a conceptual approach

Nowadays, health, wellness and medical tourism are recognized as one the most developed and growing sector of today’s thriving tourism that has increased its activity worldwide, due to a lot of social and circumstancies that leads people to achieve and pursue a quality of life. However, these kind of tourism face a multitude of and one of that challenges is the discrepance on its different approaches and definitions. literature review on this topic with a descriptive, comparative and nature was conducted, building a theoretical framework on field of study. Units of meaning for the definition of the concept were elected, which allowed to reflect and sintetize the approaches to the topic. This analysis brought other of identification and description of distinct themes, including few issues about health, wellness, medical tourism, wellbeing and of life. , the main goal of this paper is to summarize and clarify this and sweeping concept that assumes in a prominent role in the context of tourism and results in a concise overview of the literature on the subject towards a small contribution to a better of the concept.