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Leisure Industry and Hotels: The Importance of Wellness Services for Guests’ Well-Being

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In the last decades, the wellness industry has experienced a real economic boom worldwide. Wellness centres within hotel complexes have become one of the most important components in the development of the leisure industry. Aside from the standard offering that wellness centres include (hydrotherapy, cosmetic treatments, massage, fitness, meditation, nutritive balanced menus, etc.), one of the frequently neglected functions of wellness centres is certainly their educational nature—the spreading of the wellness philosophy with an accent on a healthy lifestyle. Such a holistic approach of applying the wellness concept can have a positive impact on the subjective feeling of well-being among the visitors of wellness centres. Wellness tourism, and wellness as a lifestyle, are certainly a part of modern trends that hotels have to adjust to for the sake of financial success and the achievement of competitive advantage in the market. Thus, a critical approach to the literature in this field would represent a useful theoretical base, both for the managers of hotels and for their customers. The results could be of interest to all stakeholders in the hotel and leisure businesses, since they could be applied when setting future standards in the fields of the leisure industry and wellness tourism.

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  1. Faculty of Tourism, University of Maribor, Cesta prvih borcev 36, 8250, Brežice, Slovenia

    Milica Rančić Demir

  2. Social Geography Department, Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts), 9 Djure Jakšića St, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia

    Marko D. Petrović

  3. Institute of Sports, Tourism and Service, South Ural State University, 76 Lenin Av, Chelyabinsk, 454080, Russia

    Marko D. Petrović

  4. Department of Geography, Faculty of Sciences, Tourism and Hotel Management, Trg Dositeja Obradovića, University of Novi Sad, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Ivana Blešić

  5. Institute of Sports, Tourism and Service, South Ural State University, 76 Lenin Av., Chelyabinsk, 454080, Russia

    Ivana Blešić

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    Adrian Lubowiecki-Vikuk

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    Bruno Miguel Barbosa de Sousa

  3. Department of Geography, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

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Rančić Demir, M., Petrović, M.D., Blešić, I. (2021). Leisure Industry and Hotels: The Importance of Wellness Services for Guests’ Well-Being. In: Lubowiecki-Vikuk, A., de Sousa, B.M.B., Đerčan, B.M., Leal Filho, W. (eds) Handbook of Sustainable Development and Leisure Services. World Sustainability Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59820-4_9

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