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3 Citations
3,576 Views
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Elucidating Well-Being Measurement from the Wellness Perspective of Religious Travelers

  • Siti Hasnah Hassan,
  • Thurasamy Ramayah and
  • Muhammad Imran Qureshi

20 March 2023

The holistic conceptions of multi-dimensional well-being that synergize the constructs that capture all elements of the well-being of travelers are lacking in current literature. This study aims to develop an instrument to measure religious travelers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
349 Views
20 Pages

Transformative Tourism Labor: The Wellness Healer’s Quest for Well-Being

  • Songxue Zhang,
  • Zhilun (Alan) Huang,
  • Kang-Lin Peng and
  • Yibin Yao

13 February 2026

While facilitating tourists’ personal transformation, wellness healers simultaneously navigate their own quest for well-being in delivering wellness tourism services. However, existing research predominantly focuses on tourists’ psycholog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,227 Views
14 Pages

9 January 2021

Beginning with the school year 2006–2007, U.S. school districts participating in the federal Child Nutrition Programs were required to adopt and implement a local wellness policy (LWP) that included goals and/or standards for nutrition educatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,256 Views
18 Pages

2 September 2025

Undergraduate engineering programs are associated with high stress and heavy workloads that impact the wellness of students. One university offers a unique undergraduate engineering education program structure offering two degree plan lengths, four o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,614 Views
23 Pages

Measuring Wellness Through Indigenous Partnerships: A Scoping Review

  • Lynn Mad Plume,
  • Danya Carroll,
  • Melanie Nadeau and
  • Nicole Redvers

Indigenous wellness has been defined in varying contexts by diverse Indigenous Peoples. The existing indicators used to measure wellness are often defined from a Western perspective. Despite the rich conceptualizations of Indigenous wellness, there e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
30,211 Views
23 Pages

18 January 2023

On the basis of the bottom-up spillover theory, this study explores the influence of the wellness tourism experience on tourists’ well-being. Considering wellness tourists as the research participants, tourist satisfaction, gender, and age were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,813 Views
12 Pages

Objective: To assess the clinical outcomes of participants of an employee wellness program during four years of service implementation. Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted at 15 independent community pharmacy chain locations in northwes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,416 Views
23 Pages

Attribute Framework Validation for Wellness Tourism within the Context of Thailand

  • Natnisha Kongtaveesawas,
  • Pattarawan Prasarnphanich,
  • Sukree Sinthupinyo and
  • Ann Suwaree Ashton

13 May 2022

Background: Research on the theoretical integration of attributes of wellness tourism in the form of the physical, mental, spiritual, and environmental (PMSE) attribute framework and the effect of cultural differences on the framework validation has...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,820 Views
25 Pages

Pet Wellness and Vitamin A: A Narrative Overview

  • Yauheni Shastak and
  • Wolf Pelletier

25 March 2024

The health of companion animals, particularly dogs and cats, is significantly influenced by nutrition, with vitamins playing a crucial role. Vitamin A, in particular, is indispensable, with diverse roles ranging from vision to immune modulation and r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,468 Views
20 Pages

Investigating the Relationship between Experience, Well-Being, and Loyalty: A Study of Wellness Tourists

  • Ramjit Singh,
  • Parikshat Singh Manhas,
  • Mudasir Ahmad Mir and
  • Joana A. Quintela

9 August 2022

The present research aims to determine the relationship between the construct of autonomy, intrinsic motivation, and tourist experience, as well as loyalty in the context of wellness and spa tourism. The exploratory–descriptive design was adopt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,196 Views
15 Pages

15 March 2024

Increased awareness of negative psychological symptoms and the negative impact of the pandemic has led to a rising demand for wellness-related travel experiences. There is a need for research on tourists’ experiential and reflective engagement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
160 Views
23 Pages

11 March 2026

This study explores how the multifaceted servicescape of wellness hotels influences customers’ intentions to revisit and recommend, with customer satisfaction acting as a mediating mechanism. Drawing on the Stimulus–Organism–Respons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
346 Views
15 Pages

Validating the Music Wellness Model: Evidence from Expert and Public Perspectives

  • Jazz Walia,
  • Sinead George,
  • Daisy Sun,
  • Bev Foster,
  • Lee Bartel and
  • Chelsea Mackinnon

19 January 2026

Rising rates of mental health concerns worldwide highlight the need for accessible and effective support. Music wellness, defined as “interacting with music in a way that contributes to holistic health and flourishing,” may help address t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,573 Views
21 Pages

A crucial factor in shaping the character of a spa and wellness hotel’s character is the design and functionality of the recreational area. This element is linked to other areas in the hotel, such as dining, accommodation, and conference facili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
10,812 Views
32 Pages

Smart Aging System: Uncovering the Hidden Wellness Parameter for Well-Being Monitoring and Anomaly Detection

  • Hemant Ghayvat,
  • Muhammad Awais,
  • Sharnil Pandya,
  • Hao Ren,
  • Saeed Akbarzadeh,
  • Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Prosanta Gope,
  • Arpita Chouhan and
  • Wei Chen

13 February 2019

Background: Ambiguities and anomalies in the Activity of Daily Living (ADL) patterns indicate deviations from Wellness. The monitoring of lifestyles could facilitate remote physicians or caregivers to give insight into symptoms of the disease and pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,885 Views
11 Pages

Using Conversations, Listening and Leadership to Support Staff Wellness: The CALM Framework

  • Usman Iqbal,
  • Natalie Wilson,
  • Robyn Taylor,
  • Louise Smith and
  • Friedbert Kohler

Healthcare workers’ (HCWs) wellness is a critical concern, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic. Staff Wellness Rounding (SWR) has emerged as a leadership-driven strategy to support HCWs but research on its effectiveness remains limited...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,140 Views
15 Pages

22 October 2024

The objective of the study is twofold: to investigate the direct effect of employee wellness programs on employee engagement in the hospitality industry, and to examine the mediating role of corporate social responsibility as well as the moderating r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,103 Views
12 Pages

Sleep and Social Wellness: Does Current Subjective and Objective Sleep Inform Future Social Well-Being?

  • Sarah M. Ghose,
  • Morgan P. Reid,
  • Natalie D. Dautovich and
  • Joseph M. Dzierzewski

Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the link between sleep and broader social well-being. Specifically, the current study evaluated whether subjective and objective sleep indices were associated with subsequent social well-being. Metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,994 Views
23 Pages

Wellness Tourism Experiences and Tourists’ Satisfaction: A Multicriteria Analysis Approach

  • Vasiliki Karagianni,
  • Petros Kalantonis,
  • Paris Tsartas and
  • Despina Sdrali

15 September 2025

The present study explores the determinants of tourist satisfaction within the context of wellness tourism in Greece, an emerging segment of the tourism industry that emphasizes holistic well-being. The aim was to assess the overall satisfaction of w...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
1,397 Views
2 Pages

The Development of the Women’s Wellness Program for Irritable Bowel Syndrome

  • Bobbi Laing,
  • Nikki Hart,
  • Nette Scur,
  • Janine Porter-Steele,
  • Debra Anderson,
  • Alan Fraser and
  • Alexandra McCarthy

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic, relapsing, remitting functional disorder of the gut, characterised by abdominal pain, bloating, and changes in bowel habits, and associated with poor quality of life and depression. A common disorder in pr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,338 Views
11 Pages

Profit versus Quality: The Enigma of Scientific Wellness

  • Katrina Carbonara,
  • Adam J. MacNeil,
  • Deborah D. O’Leary and
  • Jens R. Coorssen

3 January 2022

The “best of both worlds” is not often the case when it comes to implementing new health models, particularly in community settings. It is often a struggle between choosing or balancing between two components: depth of research or financi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,021 Views
19 Pages

Sense of Happiness and Wellness Among Adolescents and Their School Environment

  • Sigita Lesinskienė,
  • Rokas Šambaras,
  • Ieva Ridzvanavičiūtė,
  • Izabelė Jūraitytė,
  • Severija Skabeikaitė,
  • Urtė Stanelytė and
  • Margarita Kubilevičiūtė

7 January 2025

Background: Happiness and health are crucial elements of adolescents’ lives that significantly impact mental well-being and societal engagement. This article hypothesizes that a suitable school environment may be one of the components that can...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
11,781 Views
10 Pages

Perceived Workplace Support for Employee Participation in Workplace Wellness Programs: A Brief Report

  • Jennifer Altman,
  • Casey Mace Firebaugh,
  • Stephanie M. Morgan and
  • Michael Epstein

20 July 2023

Workplace wellness programs have the potential to help improve employee well-being and manage the growing costs associated with poor employee health. Low participation rates stunt the benefits to employee health and limit organizations from maximizin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,126 Views
27 Pages

Developing and Validating an Assessment Scale to Measure the Competitiveness of Wellness Destinations

  • Thadathibesra Phuthong,
  • Pongpun Anuntavoranich,
  • Achara Chandrachai and
  • Krerk Piromsopa

31 March 2022

The present study developed an assessment scale to measure the competitiveness of wellness destinations in Thailand, particularly from the perspective of the wellness tourism firm. A literature review and in-depth interviews informed the components a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,188 Views
17 Pages

Towards a Thriving Workplace: A Feasibility Study on Mindfulness and the Mediterranean Lifestyle for Corporate Wellness

  • Efstratios Christodoulou,
  • Eleni Poutli,
  • Demetriana Andreou,
  • Sotiria Laoutari,
  • Fani Athanasiou,
  • Yiannis Kourkoutas and
  • Antonios E. Koutelidakis

Background/Objectives: This study explores the potential of integrating mindfulness and the Mediterranean lifestyle into corporate wellness programs to enhance workplace well-being. Methods: A survey of 485 employees from Greece and Cyprus examined h...

  • Viewpoint
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,037 Views
19 Pages

On Gastronomic Jurisprudence and Judicial Wellness as a Matter of Competence

  • Alan C. Logan,
  • Colleen M. Berryessa,
  • Pragya Mishra and
  • Susan L. Prescott

9 June 2025

For over a century, critics have postulated that a judge’s state of hunger or post-prandial mental state is a determinant of judicial outcomes. This idea, known in contemporary discourse as the ‘judicial breakfast,’ is used as a sur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
16,906 Views
13 Pages

Wellness Tourism—New Challenges and Opportunities for Tourism in Salou

  • Marta Gemma Nel-lo Andreu,
  • Alba Font-Barnet and
  • Marc Espasa Roca

23 July 2021

Following a long history of using various strategies and policies for diversification and seasonal adjustment in the face of the challenges of achieving economic, social, and environmental sustainability, sun and beach destinations should also consid...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,426 Views
15 Pages

This paper explores the impact of technology and wellness in the context of students entering post-secondary education. It aims to provide insights into the use of technology and how it affects students’ wellness. The transition from high schoo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,257 Views
27 Pages

On Curating Multimodal Sensory Data for Health and Wellness Platforms

  • Muhammad Bilal Amin,
  • Oresti Banos,
  • Wajahat Ali Khan,
  • Hafiz Syed Muhammad Bilal,
  • Jinhyuk Gong,
  • Dinh-Mao Bui,
  • Soung Ho Cho,
  • Shujaat Hussain,
  • Taqdir Ali and
  • Sungyoung Lee
  • + 2 authors

27 June 2016

In recent years, the focus of healthcare and wellness technologies has shown a significant shift towards personal vital signs devices. The technology has evolved from smartphone-based wellness applications to fitness bands and smartwatches. The novel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,148 Views
21 Pages

22 August 2019

Wellness assessment refers to the evaluation of physical, mental, and social well-being. This work explores the possibility of applying technological tools to assist clinicians and professionals to improve the quality of life of people through contin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,614 Views
18 Pages

14 October 2022

The reduction in face-to-face contact and the increase in time spent at home during the ongoing coronavirus disease pandemic have resulted in increasing interest and demand for smart homes. Further, the rapid increase in the number of one-person and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,754 Views
16 Pages

Comparison of Spa Choice between Wellness Tourists and Healthcare/Medical Tourists

  • Jorge Pelegrín-Borondo,
  • Noelia Araújo-Vila and
  • Jose A. Fraiz-Brea

9 December 2020

Spa tourism is considered one of the most important segments of the $639 billion wellness market. The literature refers to two types of spa tourists: wellness tourists and healthcare/medical tourists. However, virtually no studies have compared spa c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,813 Views
15 Pages

Indigenous peoples globally are pursuing diverse strategies to foster mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness by reclaiming and restoring their relationships to land. For Anishinaabe communities, the land is the source of local knowledge systems th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
10,431 Views
16 Pages

In recent years, with the rapid change of people’s health concept, health and wellness tourism has shown a vigorous development trend. However, existing literature has been lacking on travelers’ behavioral intentions, influenced by their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,505 Views
6 Pages

Feasibility and Adoption of a Focused Digital Wellness Program in Older Adults

  • Eric Tam,
  • Pedro Kondak Villas Boas,
  • Fernando Ruaro,
  • Juliane Flesch,
  • Jennifer Wu,
  • Amelia Thomas,
  • James Li and
  • Felipe Lopes

Digital health programs offer numerous psychological and physical health benefits. To date, digital programs have been aimed broadly at younger participants, yet older individuals may also benefit. Our study sought to demonstrate user feasibility and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,105 Views
11 Pages

Give until It Hurts: An Exploratory Analysis of Mental Health Workers’ Wellness

  • Marin G. Olson,
  • Karly M. Pyles and
  • Danielle Kristen Nadorff

Background: The well-being of mental health professionals has been of growing concern due to the increasing rates of reported stress and burnout. Previous research suggests that the quality of life for mental health workers (MHWs) is at an increased...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,091 Views
19 Pages

22 November 2022

One of the tourism industry’s segments with the strongest growth rates today is health tourism. Health tourism includes two subgroups: medical tourism (traveling outside one’s country of residence for the purpose of receiving medical care...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,010 Views
11 Pages

Recognizing and understanding the nuances of mental health and how issues can present at various levels of healthcare for both patients and the interprofessional (IP) healthcare team can be crucial for the success and well-being of team members, as w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,298 Views
10 Pages

Despite widespread discussion and public policy support for workplace wellness programs in the United States, their diffusion has been slow. Using data from the 2017 Workplace Health Administration Survey, this paper explored the importance of establ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,327 Views
12 Pages

Evaluation of a Pilot Wellness Elective for Master of Public Health Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Blaise Y. O’Malley,
  • Edgard Etoundi-Ngono,
  • Jianjun Hua,
  • Joseph P. Nano and
  • Catherine F. Pipas

Background: Graduate student wellbeing is a public health issue in the United States. The COVID-19 outbreak exacerbated the mental health burden on graduate students worldwide. Culture of Wellness (PH 104) is a 2-week wellbeing elective course that t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
647 Views
20 Pages

As the hospitality industry adapts to meet customers’ increasing demand for wellness, incorporating innovative wellness services (WSs) has become a crucial strategy to retain customer engagement. This study explored how the psychological trait...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,900 Views
20 Pages

10 October 2024

The main objective of this research was to present Serbia as a destination for wellness and spa tourism, bearing in mind the fact that there are about 1000 springs in this area with a potential for tourism. Then again, since there are only about 40 a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,591 Views
24 Pages

A Wellness Mobile Application for Smart Health: Pilot Study Design and Results

  • Giovanna Sannino,
  • Manolo Forastiere and
  • Giuseppe De Pietro

17 March 2017

Wellness is one of the main factors crucial in the avoidance of illness or disease. Experience has shown that healthy lifestyle programs are an important strategy to prevent the major shared risk factors for many diseases including cardiovascular dis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,309 Views
29 Pages

Solving the Optimal Selection of Wellness Tourist Attractions and Destinations in the GMS Using the AMIS Algorithm

  • Rapeepan Pitakaso,
  • Natthapong Nanthasamroeng,
  • Sairoong Dinkoksung,
  • Kantimarn Chindaprasert,
  • Worapot Sirirak,
  • Thanatkij Srichok,
  • Surajet Khonjun,
  • Sarinya Sirisan,
  • Ganokgarn Jirasirilerd and
  • Chaiya Chomchalao

18 September 2022

This study aims to select the ideal mixture of small and medium-sized destinations and attractions in Thailand’s Ubon Ratchathani Province in order to find potential wellness destinations and attractions. In the study region, 46 attractions and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
1,269 Views
15 Pages

The ageing population of Europe is a concern for political decision makers and visions on how to deal with the issues are being debated. The issues raised concern elderly people, the age group 75-90 years, but not much thought is given the young elde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,222 Views
16 Pages

21 October 2015

There is increasing literature demonstrating the link between building indoor environmental quality, and occupant health and productivity, driving the corporate real estate industry to investigate how to integrate wellness features in both new and ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,759 Views
14 Pages

Work Engagement, Financial Wellness Support and COVID-19 Risk Perceptions in Egypt

  • Michael R. Wagner,
  • Ghadeer Mohamed Badr Eldin Aboul-Ela and
  • Marwa El Maghawry Ibrahim

While the relationship between COVID-19 and employee attitudes has been studied in developed economies, little research has examined this relationship in emerging markets. This is relevant in the age of COVID-19, given the financial disruption it has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,409 Views
12 Pages

With the development of autonomous technology, the research into multimodal human-machine interaction (HMI) for autonomous vehicles (AVs) has attracted extensive attention, especially in automotive wellness. To support the design of HMIs for automoti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,986 Views
11 Pages

Teachers’ and Principals’ Familiarity with School Wellness Policy: A Health Promoting Schools Assessment

  • Matthew Chrisman,
  • Anita Skarbek,
  • Patricia Endsley and
  • Nicholas Marchello

The current study explored teacher and principal familiarity with school wellness polices in primary schools, including who serves on school wellness committees, and who should implement and enforce wellness policies in the school. An electronic surv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,690 Views
15 Pages

13 December 2024

The purpose of this paper is to examine how college students perceived their personal wellness and identified their sources of support while enrolled as a college student in a teacher’s college during the COVID-19 pandemic. College education st...

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