Chrysikou, Evangelia;
(2025)
Therapeutic architecture and tourism: exploring potential cross-disciplinary synergies: a Horizon 2050 paper.
Tourism Review
, 80
(1)
pp. 151-164.
10.1108/TR-01-2024-0002.
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Abstract
Purpose: This paper aims to strengthen the connection between therapeutic built environments and tourism research and practice. While there is evidence in the importance of the Built Environment (BE) of cities, workspaces and health-care facilities to health, the BE of facilities for tourism in relation to health remains relatively unexplored. Design/methodology/approach: The paper conducts an exploratory search on architecture and tourism BE and narrowed it down to a scoping review on wellness tourism and architectural health impacts from 2010 to 2024. This would highlight lessons learned from the field of medical architecture, i.e. a cross-disciplinary field combining BE research, public health and health-care services research, to explore potential synergies of cross-pollination with the field of hospitality and medical architecture. Findings: Principles and theories of medical architecture can be incorporated into the BE of wellness hospitality, tourism for ageing and pandemic preparedness. Originality/value: The paper sets the basis of a novel cross-disciplinary collaboration between therapeutic architecture and hospitality for increasing the societal impact of the latter. This is particularly important in a post-Covid and an ageing society.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Therapeutic architecture and tourism: exploring potential cross-disciplinary synergies: a Horizon 2050 paper |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1108/TR-01-2024-0002 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-01-2024-0002 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Therapeutic architecture, Health tourism and hospitality, Covid-19, Well-being, Built Environment, Hospitality planning |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett Sch of Const and Proj Mgt > Bartlett Real Estate Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10196533 |
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