Introduction: engaging the nexus of wellness and (critical) tourism studies / by Kellee Caton, Heather Mair, Meghan Muldoon, and Bryan S. R. Grimwood -- Black female cultural safety in Tebrakunna country: what is wellness for us? / by Emma Lee -- Exploring local languages use in community-based tourism settings in Haida Gwaii (British Columbia, Canada) / by Kelly Whitney-Gould, Pamela Wright, Anna Carr, and Jason (Gaagwiis) Alsop -- Blogging for researcher wellbeing in a study of South African township tourism / by Meghan Muldoon -- Let them be heard: the emotional performances of enslaved narratives at United States plantation sites / by Stefanie Benjamin -- Caring for animal welfare: volunteer tourists and captive-elephant wellbeing in Thailand / by Madyson Taylor, Bryan S. R. Grimwood, and Karla Boluk -- Retreat and freedom at the Canadian cottage: an early feminist story / by Julia Harrison -- Family travel in the US: attitudes and barriers to family wellbeing / by Lynn Minnaert -- Wellness through everyday place-sharing: the emotional geographies of migrant family travel back home to Cyprus / by Kelley A. McClinchey -- Making love on the farm: the Shambhala Music Festival / by Nataliya Kiyan and Kellee Caton -- Community wellbeing between climate risk and tourism development: contradictions on the shore of the St. Lawrence Estuary / by Coralie Lebon and Dominic Lapointe -- Conclusion: being well in, and with, the world / by Lisa Cooke.