ROLE OF PUBLIC PARKS IN HOLISTIC WELLNESS TOURISM DESTINATION

2026-08-20T12:08:45+07:00

While global wellness tourism is booming, local urban public parks remain vital destinations for generating social and economic value. This study aims to analyze the role of public parks as destinations for holistic wellness tourism. This study employed a systematic review of Thai and international academic sources retrieved from the Thai-Journal Citation Index and ScienceDirect. The analysis, which covered publications from 2015 to 2025, synthesized the roles of public parks as destinations for holistic wellness tourism across five principal dimensions: physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual. On the basis of 22 selected articles, these dimensions constitute important pull factors for wellness tourists. Findings indicate that public parks perform roles across all five dimensions of holistic wellness tourism, although the intensity varies by dimension. The social dimension appeared most frequently in the reviewed literature, reflecting the prominent role of public parks as spaces that foster attachment and social interaction. This suggests that public parks simultaneously function as areas of well-being, public spaces, and venues for building social relationships. These findings can reframe public parks from urban green infrastructure to potential holistic wellness tourism resources through a five-dimensional synthesis.

MAPPING EVOLUTIONARY STAGES AND EXPLORING INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS IN SINO-UK COOPERATIVE HIGHER EDUCATION: INTEGRATING SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2026-07-13T13:41:14+07:00

Despite the significant expansion of Chinese-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools (CFCRS) over the last forty years, there remains a scarcity of research that connects its macro-level structural changes with the micro-level negotiation of institutional logics. To fill this gap, this study adopts an explanatory sequential mixed‑methods design integrating Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) within the Institutional Logics Perspective (ILP). Quantitative and qualitative strands were conducted concurrently and independently before being integrated during interpretation. First, SNA was employed to map the collaborative network of Sino-UK institutions and programmes from 1995 to 2025. Four evolutionary phases were identified: exploratory (1995–2003), expansion (2004–2015), quality enhancement (2016–2020), and transformation (2021–2025). Second, Queen Mary University of London Engineering School, Northwestern Polytechnical University (QMES), was selected as a representative case for in-depth analysis. Drawing on CDA and ILP, five English-language talent cultivation schemes were scrutinized to explore how institutional logics are discursively constructed and negotiated. The findings reveal that talent cultivation discourse selectively integrates state, academic, market, and international logics rather than privileging a single dominant logic, producing a hybrid graduate model that is simultaneously ideologically grounded, academically competent, and globally oriented. By linking macro-level network dynamics with micro-level discursive processes, this study provides an in-depth multi-tiered account of the evolution and formation of Sino-UK transnational higher education, while also proposing a flexible framework for investigating institutional changes across diverse transnational educational contexts.

VOICES AND VISIONS: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

ROLE OF PUBLIC PARKS IN HOLISTIC WELLNESS TOURISM DESTINATION

MAPPING EVOLUTIONARY STAGES AND EXPLORING INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS IN SINO-UK COOPERATIVE HIGHER EDUCATION: INTEGRATING SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS