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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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Geographies of tourism: (un)ethical encounters.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on encounter, and the manner in which tourism catalyses entanglements of people, places and identities, and present theories of the tourist gaze, and critiques of tourist gaze.
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Medical Tourism—Attracting Japanese Tourists For Medical Tourism Experience
TL;DR: In this paper, the intention of Japanese tourists to travel to Korea in a medical tourism context by applying the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was examined by applying structural equation modeling to test two dimensions of medical tourism models.
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America's new refugees--seeking affordable surgery offshore.
Arnold Milstein,Mark Smith +1 more
TL;DR: Seriously ill Americans are receiving treatment at advanced private hospitals in low-income countries, driven by the escalation of out-of-pocket spending for health care and insurance premiums beyond the grasp of low- and middle-income Americans.
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Heading south: why Mexican immigrants in California seek health services in Mexico.
TL;DR: Mexican immigrants are the most likely to seek medical, dental, and prescription services in Mexico, and a large number, but small percentages, of US-born nonLatino whites purchase prescription drugs there.
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The movement of patients across borders: challenges and opportunities for public health
TL;DR: The main forces that drive medical travel are discussed and the implications on health systems, in particular the impacts on access to health care, financing and the health workforce are discussed, are discussed.