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 …

Knowledge management orientation and operational performance relationship in medical tourism (overview of the model performance in the COVID-19 pandemic and …

M Ghasemi, MG Nejad, I Aghaei - Health Services …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite the considerable growth of interest in medical tourism in the last decade, there is no
standard procedure to measure the pivotal factors in medical tourism destinations. Medical …

Medical tourism destination image and its relationship with the intention to revisit: A study of Chinese medical tourists in Malaysia

TH Cham, YM Lim, BC Sia, JH Cheah… - Journal of China tourism …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Medical tourism in Malaysia has grown over the years and has become a promising
industry. However, due to the establishment of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), we see …

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 …

Segmentation by push motives in health tourism destinations: A case study of Polish spa resorts

D Dryglas, M Salamaga - Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 2018 - Elsevier
The aim of the paper is to segment tourists visiting medical (traditional) spa resorts and
examine the underlying factors that motivate them. Survey data were collected from 2050 …

Dental tourism: Examining tourist profiles, motivation and satisfaction

M Jaapar, G Musa, S Moghavvemi, R Saub - Tourism Management, 2017 - Elsevier
Despite the overwhelming interest in medical tourism research, knowledge in dental tourism,
which is its subspecialty, remains limited. This study is the first to measure tourist profiles …

Does medical tourism promote economic growth? A cross-country analysis

H Beladi, CC Chao, MS Ee… - Journal of Travel …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, many countries have been actively promoting medical tourism to stimulate
economic growth. However, the expansion of medical tourism has potentially detrimental …

Value as a medical tourism driver

HY Wang - Managing Service Quality: An International Journal, 2012 - emerald.com
Purpose–This study contends that customers' perceived value can drive medical tourism. To
demonstrate this, the purpose of this paper is to propose and test a research model …

More than medical tourism: lessons from Indonesia and Malaysia on South–South intra-regional medical travel

M Ormond, D Sulianti - Current Issues in Tourism, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
While scholars increasingly acknowledge that most contemporary international medical
travel comprises South–South flows, these have gone curiously unexamined. Rather, policy …

The identity and role of stakeholders in the medical tourism industry: state of the art

A Kamassi, NH Abd Manaf, A Omar - Tourism Review, 2020 - emerald.com
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