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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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Consumer behaviour in tourism: Concepts, influences and opportunities
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of consumer behaviour in tourism is presented, focusing on the key concepts, external influences and opportune research contexts in contemporary tourism consumer behaviour research, including decision making, values, motivations, self-concept and personality, expectations, attitudes, perceptions satisfaction, trust and loyalty.
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Customer retention in the medical tourism industry: Impact of quality, satisfaction, trust, and price reasonableness
Heesup Han,Sunghyup Sean Hyun +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a model explaining international medical travelers' intention formation by considering the impact of quality, satisfaction, trust, and price reasonableness on their intention to visit medical clinics.
Destination marketing organizations and destination marketing : a narrative analysis of the literature
Steven Pike,Stephen J. Page +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the first narrative analysis of the areas of research that have developed within the destination marketing field since its commencement in 1973 and address a number of themes including nomenclature and the Destination Marketing Organisation (DMO), the evolution of destination marketing literature, competitiveness as the DMO reason d'etre, and DMO effectiveness.
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Destination Marketing Organizations and destination marketing: a narrative analysis of the literature.
Steven Pike,Stephen J. Page +1 more
TL;DR: The Accepted Manuscript version of the following article is available online via DOI: https://doi.tourman.2013.09.009 as mentioned in this paper, and the final, definitive version of Record is available on the Web site.
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The medical tourism index: scale development and validation.
TL;DR: The results show the MTI allows to measure meaningful differences between countries, not only on an aggregated level but also on each sub-indexes, and provides a useful tool for the various stakeholders to measure and manage their medical tourism destination brand.
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A Survey of Medical Tourism Service Providers
TL;DR: The results of a survey of medical tourism service providers are presented, and the potential impacts ofmedical tourism on both developing nations and the United States are discussed.
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Do Mexican immigrants substitute health care in Mexico for health insurance in the United States? The role of distance.
TL;DR: This article examined the extent to which uninsurance (private insurance and Medicaid) is related to the ability of immigrants to return to Mexico for health care, as measured by spatial proximity.
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Unsettled borders of care: medical tourism as a new dimension in america's health care crisis
TL;DR: The rising number of uninsured and underinsured Americans, particularly in the middle class, has been coupled with effective marketing by medical tourism companies to produce growing numbers of Americans traveling to foreign countries for healthcare.
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Complicating Common Ideas about Medical Tourism: Gender, Class, and Globality in Yemenis' International Medical Travel
TL;DR: This article proposes to uncover commonalities and differences within international medical travel while avoiding slipping into generalities and stereotypical portrayals within discussions of medical tourism.