Establishment of a value evaluation system for health and wellness tourism resources: Reflections on China’s official tourism resource evaluation criteria

Abstract

In recent years, China’s sub-healthy and aging populations have increased dramatically, giving rise to a series of health and wellness needs. People prefer health and wellness tourism activities instead of sightseeing tourism activities because of the increasing emphasis on safety and experience. Health and wellness tourism resources are a prerequisite for the development of health and wellness tourism. To critically reflect on China’s official tourism resource evaluation criteria, expert consultation was carried out by applying the Delphi method, and index weights were determined using the analytic hierarchy process. Through three rounds of expert consultation, a value evaluation system for health and wellness tourism resources was established and improved in three aspects: construction of an index system, selection of evaluation subjects, and grade discourse description, thus enhancing the feasibility and application value of the evaluation system. The system developed in this study not only enables a reflection on China’s official tourism resource evaluation criteria, but also presents a new approach in the value evaluation research of health and wellness tourism resources.

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“…Its theoretical basis mainly covers modern health science, welfare economics, tourism sociology, and population geography and other subject knowledge. The research content mainly focuses on the conceptual connotation of health and wellness tourism (Lyulicheva et al, 2023), the health and wellness functions of health and wellness tourism (Sthapit et al, 2023), the dynamic mechanism of health and wellness tourism (Bočkus et al, 2023), the innovative development of health and wellness tourism, and the classification and evaluation of health and wellness tourism resources (Phuthong et al, 2023), spatial flow characteristics of health and wellness tourists (Zhou et al, 2023;Perschke et al, 2023) and other aspects. In aggregate, the extant body of scholarly inquiry pertaining to wellness tourism is notably copious.…”