Spa tourism opportunities as strategic sector in aiding recovery from Covid-19: The Spanish model Pinos Navarrete, Aida Shaw, Gareth Health tourism thermalism therapeutic function spatial development global pandemic Spain Spa tourism has been experiencing over the last decades significant changes in its nature. Supply and demand have changed in recent years, impacting on the function of thermal centers in general, and on the use of their base resource, mineral-medicinal water, in particular. Recently, this productive sector has been forced to resituate itself due to the unexpected outbreak of the Covid pandemic whose impacts on the sector are still to be fully calibrated, although it has already halted a large part of economic activity and global flows of people and goods. The present investigation examines the function and potential that spas have as health agents. In the case of Spain, this research note reflects on the opportunities, for a repositioning of this activity in the tourist dynamics that arise during and after a period of crisis. 2024-09-25T07:17:03Z 2024-09-25T07:17:03Z 2021 journal article Pinos Navarrete, A., & Shaw, G. (2021). Spa tourism opportunities as strategic sector in aiding recovery from Covid-19: The Spanish model. Tourism and Hospitality Research, 21(2), 245-250. https://doi.org/10.1177/1467358420970626 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/95029 https://doi.org/10.1177/1467358420970626 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional