Effects of Hot Spring Tourism on Human Health

Abstract

Hot spring tourism is a tourism product based on experiencing the culture of hot spring baths. Unlike conventional tourism products, it offers multiple aspects such as cultural experience and physical and mental relaxation. It has attracted increasing attention as it meets the high demand of tourists for physical and mental well-being due to the stressful and competitive lifestyle in the modern society. The fundamental value of spring tourism lies in its influence on aspects such as health care and disease treatment. To provide a comprehensive understanding of the health values of hot spring tourism, this paper has reviewed the effects of hot spring on human health from the perspectives of heat and trace its elements and functions such as bathing. This paper aims to deepen the understanding of the relationship between hot spring tourism and human health, thereby providing a theoretical reference for the future development of hot spring tourism.