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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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Medical tourism and the state in Malaysia and Singapore
TL;DR: Malaysia and Singapore face a shortage of doctors in the public sector, and rising costs and user charges: problems that are exacerbated by a growing private market in healthcare to which the medical tourist industry contributes.
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Motivations and experiences of Mainland Chinese medical tourists in Hong Kong
TL;DR: The authors explored the motivations and experiences of a sample of medical tourists in Hong Kong and hence semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with obstetric patients from Mainland China.
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Decisive factors in medical tourism destination choice: A case study of Isfahan, Iran and fertility treatments
TL;DR: It can be concluded that religious affinity may have paramount importance in reproductive medical tourism for Muslim infertile couples who referred to the Isfahan Fertility and Infertility Center in IsfIran.
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Biotech Pilgrims and the Transnational Quest for Stem Cell Cures
TL;DR: Critiquing popular notions of “medical tourism,” the alternative concept of "biotech pilgrimage" is developed to reveal how faith intertwines with technology, travel, and the political economies of health care and medical research in a global era.
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Crossing the border for health care
Eduardo P. Macias,Leo S. Morales +1 more
TL;DR: This study shows that the high cost of health care and lack of insurance compels the poor and uninsured to seek low-cost health Care and medication in Mexico to meet their most urgent health care needs, despite the burden of cost and travel.