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This chapter takes a close view of wellness city strategies in the context of global competition between cities by focusing on three types of strategy: smart, community-driven wellness city strategies; tourist attraction-oriented wellness city strategies; and innovative, export-driven wellness city strategies. Each is briefly introduced and then exemplified by a few real-life case descriptions, including: smart wellness cities in Japan; Health Village in Tampere, Finland; Water Street Tampa, Florida; Mines Wellness City in Malaysia; Dubai Healthcare City in Dubai, UAE; Jeju Healthcare Town in Jeju Island, South Korea; a welfare cluster in Sendai, Japan; a health and high-tech integration in Austin, Texas; and a health care business incubator in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Anttiroiko, AV. (2018). Wellness City Strategies in Local–Global Dialectic. In: Wellness City. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75562-5_6
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