Wellness, Wellbeing and Tourism: Theories, Models and Emerging Paradigms

Ranjana Tiwari is a Senior Lecturer in Sunway Business School Malaysia. She is a wellbeing expert and Tourism Case Writing Trainer. A Gold Medallist in her postgraduate studies, Dr Tiwari holds a PhD focused on Tourist Destination Image and Attributes. Her research interests encompass wellbeing, positive psychology in tourism, wellness tourism and destination image.

Catheryn Khoo a Professor at Torrens University, Australia. She is a distinguished scholar in the field of Tourism and Hospitality and Editor-in-Chief of Tourism Management Perspectives. A strong advocate for gender equality in tourism, she founded Women Academics in Tourism and advises World Women Tourism. With an Asian postcolonial lens, her research focuses on marginalised voices in tourism.

Timothy J. Lee is a Professor at the Macau University of Science and Technology in Macao, China. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Tourism Research. His research interests include wellness/health tourism, food tourism, cultural heritage tourism and tourism, leisure and hospitality development that incorporates regional branding or values.