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Digital and Strategic Innovation for Alpine Health Tourism

Natural Resources, Digital Tools and Innovation Practices from HEALPS 2 Project

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Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Medical Evidence of Alpine Natural Resources as a Base for Health Tourism

    • Christina Pichler, Arnulf J. Hartl, Renate Weisböck-Erdheim, Michael Bischof
    Pages 1-30Open Access
  3. Alpine Assets, Perceptions and Strategies for Nature-Based Health Tourism

    • Jan Mosedale, Arnulf Hartl, Christina Pichler, Michael Bischof
    Pages 49-60Open Access
  4. A Digital Application for Strategic Development of Health Tourism Destinations

    • Atieh Mahroo, Daniele Spoladore, Paolo Ferrandi, Ilenia Lovato
    Pages 73-85Open Access
  5. A Methodology for Participatory Stakeholder Engagement in Nature-Based Health Tourism

    • Danilo Čeh, Mirjana Nenad, Elena Pessot
    Pages 87-97Open Access
  6. Strategic Communication in a Transnational Project—The Interreg Alpine Space Project HEALPS2

    • Daniele Spoladore, Marta Geri, Veronika Widmann
    Pages 117-127Open Access
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 129-130

About this book

This open access book presents a set of practical tools and collaborative solutions in multi-disciplinary settings to foster the Alpine Space health tourism industry’s innovation and competitiveness. The proposed solutions emerge as the result of the synergy among health, environment, tourism, digital, policy and strategy professionals. The approach underlines the pivotal role of a sustainable and ecomedical use of Alpine natural resources for health tourism destinations, and highlights the need of integrating aspects of natural resources’ healing effects, a shared knowledge of Alpine assets through digital solutions, and frames strategic approaches for the long-term development of the sector.

The volume exploits the results of the three-years long EU research project HEALPS 2, which involved several stakeholders from the health tourism, healthcare and sustainable tourism industries. This book is relevant for health tourism destinations and facilities (hotels, clinics, wellness and spa companies), regional and local authorities (policy makers), business support organizations, researchers involved in digital healthcare and geoinformatics.

Keywords

  • Alpine Region
  • health tourism
  • sustainable tourism
  • healthcare
  • HEALPS2
  • open access

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Intelligent Industrial Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing (STIIMA), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Lecco, Italy

    Daniele Spoladore, Elena Pessot, Marco Sacco

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Digital and Strategic Innovation for Alpine Health Tourism

  • Book Subtitle: Natural Resources, Digital Tools and Innovation Practices from HEALPS 2 Project

  • Editors: Daniele Spoladore, Elena Pessot, Marco Sacco

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15457-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023

  • License: CC BY

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15456-0Published: 08 November 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-15457-7Published: 07 November 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2191-530X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2191-5318

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 130

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Tourism Economics, Health Economics, Health Informatics

Buying options

Softcover Book USD 37.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)