Page Stephen J
Department of Marketing, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland FK9 4LA, UK.
Tour Manag. 2009 Apr;30(2):149-157. doi: 10.1016/j.tourman.2008.04.011. Epub 2008 Jul 11.
There has been considerable growth in interest in the field of travel medicine and the intersection with Tourism Studies since the 1990s. Yet this interest from a medical perspective is not new as a review of , one of the most well-established medical journals, shows. What is new is the way in which the interest in travel medicine has developed across the science-social science divide and has now become one strand of a wider practitioner and academic interest in tourist well-being. With the exception of studies on technology and tourism and environmental science and tourism (e.g. climate change), this science-social science intersection has been comparatively absent from research in Tourism Studies. For this reason, this current issue's paper seeks to broadly outline the evolution of this area of study and some of the influential studies published to date along with some of the research agendas now emerging in this new area of study.
自20世纪90年代以来，人们对旅行医学领域以及它与旅游研究的交叉领域的兴趣有了显著增长。然而，从医学角度来看，这种兴趣并非新鲜事物，正如对最权威的医学期刊之一的回顾所示。新的是对旅行医学的兴趣在科学与社会科学之间的发展方式，并且现在已成为更广泛的从业者和学术界对游客福祉兴趣的一个分支。除了关于技术与旅游以及环境科学与旅游（如气候变化）的研究外，这种科学与社会科学的交叉在旅游研究中相对较少。因此，本期的论文旨在大致勾勒这一研究领域的演变、迄今为止发表的一些有影响力的研究，以及这个新研究领域中正在出现的一些研究议程。
