Introduction
Many tourist destinations have positioned themselves as health destinations to attract health-conscious consumers.The literature on health tourism which entails people traveling to certain destinations to restore or protect their health has grown extensively over the last two decades. Health tourism can be divided broadly into medical and wellness tourism both of which have increased in popularity. Whereas medical tourism involves medical care services such as dental care or surgery to restore health the attraction of visitors to destinations that claim to promote health without providing genuine health care services is typically described as wellness tourism. The term wellness tourism refers mainly to travel to maintain strengthen or rejuvenate health through the natural resources of the location and complementary leisure servicesthat favor health