The role of relationship marketing in behavioural intentions of medical tourism services and guest experiences

BM Sousa, GM Alves - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper entails a reflection on medical tourism services and guest experiences.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze how relationship marketing relates to other relevant …

Country-to-country transfer of patients and the risk of multi-resistant bacterial infection

BA Rogers, Z Aminzadeh, Y Hayashi… - Clinical Infectious …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Management of patients with a history of healthcare contact in multiple countries is now a
reality for many clinicians. Leisure tourism, the burgeoning industry of medical tourism …

Home, sweet home? Understanding diasporic medical tourism behaviour. Exploratory research of Polish immigrants in Belgium

A Mathijsen - Tourism Management, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper explores motivations for diasporic medical tourism. Using a qualitative method it
seeks to understand diasporic medical tourism behaviour. Specifically, it examines the case …

Medical tourism for COVID-19 post-crisis recovery?

F Abbaspour, S Soltani, A Tham - Anatolia, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
COVID-19 is a global pandemic that at end May 2020 has resulted in six million global
cases (World Health Organization [WHO], 2020). The unfolding COVID-19 crisis has …

Grey system theory in the study of medical tourism industry and its economic impact

HS Dang, TMT Nguyen, CN Wang, JD Day… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Asia-Pacific region is known as a favorite destination for global medical travelers due to
its medical expertise, innovative technology, safety, attractive tourism destination and cost …

Medical tourism: a cost or benefit to the NHS?

J Hanefeld, D Horsfall, N Lunt, R Smith - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
'Medical Tourism'–the phenomenon of people travelling abroad to access medical treatment-
has received increasing attention in academic and popular media. This paper reports …

Why do patients engage in medical tourism?

V Runnels, PM Carrera - Maturitas, 2012 - Elsevier
Medical tourism is commonly perceived and popularly depicted as an economic issue, both
at the system and individual levels. The decision to engage in medical tourism, however, is …

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all? A critical content analysis on medical tourism

H Rodrigues, A Brochado, M Troilo, A Mohsin - Tourism Management …, 2017 - Elsevier
Medical tourism continues to grow as the Internet helps individuals make appropriate
choices and informed decisions. This study investigated two areas of medical tourism …

Weibo users and Academia's foci on tourism safety: Implications from institutional differences and digital divide

L Zeng, RYM Li, H Zeng - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Tourism safety is essential for tourists and tourism practitioners. This study conducted a
bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer and CiteSpace for 2018 articles indexed on the Web …

Competitiveness attributes of a medical tourism destination: The case of South Korea with importance-performance analysis

MMV Junio, JH Kim, TJ Lee - Journal of Travel & Tourism …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This study aims to explore the importance and performance of medical tourism destination
competitiveness (TDC). The aims were achieved by collecting empirical data on the …