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Issues And Challenges Of Integrative Medical System To The Growth Of Health Tourism Industry In Nepal, Bishnu Prasad Khanal Jun 2017

Issues And Challenges Of Integrative Medical System To The Growth Of Health Tourism Industry In Nepal, Bishnu Prasad Khanal

Travel and Tourism Research Association: Advancing Tourism Research Globally

Health tourism is a rapidly growing phenomenon in today’s world. Health tourists are seeking better opportunities for low cost and high quality treatment in other countries as well as experiencing other cultures. The purpose of this paper is to find issues and challenges of Integrative Medicine to the Growth of Health Tourism Industry in Nepal and outline the opportunities and potentials of health tourism in Nepal using yoga and Ayurveda. Yoga and Ayurveda tourism is a new form of niche tourism which has been rapidly growing in the recent years. Today, Ayurveda is a popular form of treatment for many …


Accessing Healthfulness Through Intrapersonal Communication: The Correlations Between Health Locus Of Control And Health Outcomes Behaviors, And Perceptions, Laura S. Gavin-Breier Apr 2017

Accessing Healthfulness Through Intrapersonal Communication: The Correlations Between Health Locus Of Control And Health Outcomes Behaviors, And Perceptions, Laura S. Gavin-Breier

Scholar Week 2016 - present

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Session D-1: Lies, Damn Lies, And Statistics, Peter Dong, Joseph Traina Mar 2017

Session D-1: Lies, Damn Lies, And Statistics, Peter Dong, Joseph Traina

Professional Learning Day

The crucial and sometimes difficult areas of data analysis and statistics can be made clearer by looking at examples of how they can be done badly - examples which, unfortunately, are easy to find. We share our experience teaching a short course which examines disingenuous graphs, biased surveys, deliberately misworded statements, and other methods of misrepresenting data. The negative examples provide an opportunity to discuss how statistics should properly be done, and explain what can happen when statistics are used incorrectly. We include a discussion of the failure of polls to predict the outcome of the presidential election.


U.S. Spap Industry Returns To Growth, Colin Mclheney Jan 2017

U.S. Spap Industry Returns To Growth, Colin Mclheney

Travel and Tourism Research Association: Advancing Tourism Research Globally

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