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Contemporary medical tourism: Conceptualisation, culture and commodification
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An overview is given of the short history and rapid rise of medical tourism, its documentation, and current knowledge and analysis of the industry.About:
This article is published in Tourism Management.The article was published on 2013-02-01. It has received 465 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tourism geography & Tourism.read more
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Discussing the posthosting evaluation of a mega sporting event: The perception of Warsaw Residents toward UEFA EURO 2012:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify Warsaw residents' perceptions and attitudes toward the UEFA EURO 2012 tournament and conduct an investigation focused on how residents of Warsaw perceived the impacts of the tournament on them.
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An Exploratory Study of Factors Influencing Chinese Outbound Medical Tourism
Kei Wei Chia,Yi Ming Liao +1 more
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper pointed out that China has experienced rapid economic transitions in the past few decades, accumulating high demand for accessible, affordable, and efficient healthcare services both within the country and abroad.
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Evaluating the antecedents of health destination loyalty: The moderating role of destination trust and tourists’ emotions
TL;DR: In this paper, the accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Hotel & Tourism Administration on 2 June 2021 has been published and the accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.
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Health Tourism: Conceptual Framework and Insights from the Case of a Spanish Mature Destination
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the real situation of the health tourism sector through a case study in a consolidated mature destination in Spain (Costa del Sol) and show how health tourism is a conceptual umbrella for several practices related to wellness and health travel.
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Medical tourism potential of central and eastern europe: attempt at classification
TL;DR: It was found that the countries from the European Union (EU) create similar clusters and take the highest positions in the ranking, and the price level is not the top criterion determining the position within the classification.
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Medical tourism: Sea, sun, sand and … surgery
TL;DR: The rise of medical tourism emphasises the privatisation of health care, the growing dependence on technology, uneven access to health resources and the accelerated globalisation of both health care and tourism.
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Health and Wellness Tourism
Melanie Smith,László Puczkó +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Petroune et al. present the future of health and wellness tourism in terms of management and management issues in health and well-being tourism, as well as a review of the current state of the art.
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Medical Tourism in Developing Countries
TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-analysis of the literature on medical tourism and its applications in the oil and gas industry and investigates the demand for offshore doctors and the supply of medical tourism.
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Medical tourism: assessing the evidence on treatment abroad.
Neil Lunt,Percivil Carrera +1 more
TL;DR: The review sought to identify the medical tourist literature for out-of-pocket payments, focusing wherever possible on evidence and experience pertaining to patients in mid-life and beyond, and drew attention to gaps in research evidence.
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Globalization and healthcare: understanding health and medical tourism
TL;DR: This paper underscored the issue of a severely limited formal literature that is compounded by conceptual ambiguity facing health and medical tourism scholarship, and provided evidence with regard to the scale of trade in healthcare.