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What is Health and Wellness Tourism

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Handbook of Research on Human Capital and People Management in the Tourism Industry
Are among the oldest forms of tourism. Ancient civilisations as far back as 5000-1000 bc practised many of the therapies which are found in spas today (e.g. Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Thai massage). Greeks introduced water treatments to the Roman Empire and the Romans built some of the first spas in Europe. Hebrews engaged in ritual purification through immersion in the Dead Sea; the Ottoman Empire built Turkish baths; and the first forms of thalassotherapy (visits to sea water resorts) took place in the eighteenth century.
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Company Internships: Filling the Gap Between University Training and Business Reality
Noelia Araújo Vila (University of Vigo, Spain), Diego R. Toubes (University of Vigo, Spain), Arthur Filipe de Araújo (University of Aveiro, Portugal), and Jose Antonio Fraiz Brea (University of Vigo, Spain)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4318-4.ch009
Abstract
Practical experience has increasingly become an important component of university training. Institutions have made efforts to provide students with the opportunity to experience business reality. To many students, a curricular internship is the first contact with the work market. The present work analyses this discipline in the context of the Master in Tourism Planning and Management of the University of Vigo. The research universe encompasses 182 internships, which took place from 2008 to 2014. Data was collected through structured questionnaires, which aimed to obtain information on the students' specific areas of interest within the tourism industry, their level of satisfaction with the internship program and whether they were hired by the host company afterwards. The findings show that both parts—students and companies—are highly satisfied with the experience in great majority of cases, and that curricular internships have been an indispensable tool for preparing these students to the demanding tourism industry labor market.
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