To quote Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco, “It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.”

The dining table was a medieval innovation. And what was it for a wealthy Roman? The table was a couch [1]. Here’s another question: How can we create better, more affordable experiences that improve the health and well-being of citizens, especially senior citizens, through natural health tourism (NHT)?

The Consensus AI search engine defines NHT as “travel activities that focus on enhancing health and well-being through the use of natural resources and environments.” This book is a brief and spectacular research-based roadmap for how to do so [2].

The book is a recent addition to the “SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology” series. It consists of eight chapters.

The conclusion promises an action plan with policy recommendations and implementation toolkits for the Alpine region. All of that did not fit in this book, so one more question: What might that look like?

Readers are encouraged to explore critical systems thinking about what city planners have already done and can/might do in the future [3,4,5,6]. To do more as citizen developers, readers are also referred to [7,8,9,10].