Tourism as a dementia treatment based on positive psychology

J Wen, D Zheng, H Hou, I Phau, W Wang - Tourism Management, 2022 - Elsevier
No research in tourism or medicine has addressed the potential relationship between travel
and the medical treatment of dementia. Given tourism's increasingly important role in …

Medical, health and wellness tourism research—A review of the literature (1970–2020) and research agenda

L Zhong, B Deng, AM Morrison… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Medical, health and wellness tourism and travel represent a dynamic and rapidly growing
multi-disciplinary economic activity and field of knowledge. This research responds to earlier …

Health tourism strategy selection via SWOT analysis and integrated hesitant fuzzy linguistic AHP-MABAC approach

G Büyüközkan, E Mukul, E Kongar - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Health tourism focuses on the organizational and operational aspects of commercial trips for
the treatment of individuals. In line with the economic growth, the industry has evolved …

Factors influencing medical tourism adoption in Malaysia: A DEMATEL-Fuzzy TOPSIS approach

M Nilashi, S Samad, AA Manaf, H Ahmadi… - Computers & Industrial …, 2019 - Elsevier
Tourism is one of the biggest competitive industries in the world. Nowadays, medical tourism
is quickly developing as a part of tourism for health and wellness care. There are many …

Would you really recommend it? Antecedents of word-of-mouth in medical tourism

B Taheri, D Chalmers, J Wilson, N Arshed - Tourism Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Medical tourism (MT) is a valuable component of many national service economies.
Understanding the marketing and recruitment of MT patients is therefore an important …

Tourist inspiration: How the wellness tourism experience inspires tourist engagement

M He, B Liu, Y Li - Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Wellness tourism has undergone rapid development in recent decades. Based on the
transmission model of inspiration, this article aims to explore the antecedents and …

The influence of destination image and tourist satisfaction on tourist loyalty: a case study of Chinese tourists in Korea

W Chiu, S Zeng, PST Cheng - International Journal of Culture …, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore both the cognitive and affective images and
examine the effects of destination image through both aspects on satisfaction levels and …

Importance of residents' perception of tourists in establishing a reciprocal resident-tourist relationship: An application of tourist attractiveness

G Kim, LN Duffy, DW Moore - Tourism Management, 2023 - Elsevier
This study was guided by the notion of tourist attractiveness to understand residents'
perception of tourists in establishing a reciprocal resident-tourist relationship. To explore the …

The medical tourism index: Scale development and validation

M Fetscherin, RM Stephano - Tourism Management, 2016 - Elsevier
Medical tourism is an estimated $100 billion dollar industry. Despite the increasing number
of people, companies and countries involved in medical tourism, we know very little about …

Contemporary medical tourism: Conceptualisation, culture and commodification

J Connell - Tourism management, 2013 - Elsevier
An overview is given of the short history and rapid rise of medical tourism, its documentation,
and current knowledge and analysis of the industry. Definitions of medical tourism are …