Hot Spots and Cutting Edge Trends in CiteSpace based Research on Wellness Tourism

QIU Rumei; ZHANG Yu; LI Jingjing

doi:10.19329/j.cnki.1673-2928.2024.01.013

Abstract：With the accelerated development of global population aging and the improvement of public health awareness,the health tourism industry has received widespread attention from all walks of life,and has made positive research progress and practical exploration.In order to explore the key cutting-edge issues in the development of health tourism and provide reference for future research in this field,on February 22,2023,relevant literature on health tourism research topics from 2000 to 2023 was searched using the WOS core collection database and the core collection from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure database as data sources.A total of 499 English literature and 242 Chinese literature were obtained.CiteSpace software was used to visually analyze the selected Chinese and English literature,The following research conclusions have been drawn:from 2000 to 2023,the overall number of Chinese and English literature on health tourism showed an upward trend.In terms of regional influence,England plays a leading role in health tourism research with high academic influence,followed by the United States and Germany.Although China has a large number of publications,its academic influence still needs to be improved.The hot areas and frontiers of Chinese literature research mainly focus on traditional Chinese medicine tourism,forest health tourism and featured towns,health tourists,integrated development,and rural tourism and rural revitalization.The hot areas of English literature research mainly focus on medical and health systems,tourism destination image and tourist intention and decision-making,and structural changes.In the future,more attention will be paid to the characteristics and advantages of tourism destination image and tourists'intention and decision-making,as well as the impact of medical tourism on society.