Exploring the Factors that Affect the Choice of Destination for Medical Tourism
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...…whitening and dental implants), cosmetic surgery (e.g. rhinoplasty, tummy tuck, liposuction), organ, cell and tissue transplants (e.g. stem cell, organ transplantation) and cardiology (e.g. bypass, valve replacement surgery) (Gill & Singh, 2011; Heung, Kucukusta, & Song, 2011; Lunt et al., 2011)....
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...The trend however has lately reversed with more people from developed nations travelling to developing countries for high quality medical care at a lower cost (Alleman et al., 2010; Chanda, 2002; Gill & Singh, 2011; Hall, 2011; Ormond, 2011; Vijaya, 2010; Wong & Musa, 2013)....
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...Medical tourism as a niche market has emerged from the rapid growth of what has become an industry, where people travel often long distances to overseas countries to obtain medical, dental and surgical care while simultaneously being holidaymakers, in a more conventional sense [1]....
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...Among others there are few specialized medical travel agents, like MedRetreat, can choose from a menu of 183 medical procedures from seven different countries: India, Thailand, Malaysia, Brazil, Argentina, Turkey, and South Africa....
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...He goes about saying that while such situations have now radically changed but the perception of inadequacy remains [1]....
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...“Some medical procedures, such as sex changes, have become small but significant parts of medical tourism, especially in Thailand, where recuperation and the consolidation of a new identity may be better experienced at a distance from standard daily life” [1]....
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...“The principal hospital group in Singapore, Raffles, arranges airport transfers, books relatives into hotels and helps to arrange local tours” [1]....
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...They require a comprehensive service package comprising physical fitness/beauty care, healthy nutrition/diet, relaxation/ meditation and mental activity/education” [6]....
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...So, if hotels around the world want to be ahead of competition, then they have to customize their marketing approach based which segment of tourists they are planning to capture: those who come for medical treatments or those who are travelling for pure relaxation [6]....
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...According to Bookman and Bookman, “a country or specific facility may be able to achieve competitive advantage in the marketplace by leveraging various non-clinical factors, including proximity to target patients and the ease of travel between two locations” [7]....
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...A lack of insurance portability discourages prospective clients to obtain treatment in developing country [7]....
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...According to Bookman and Bookman [7], “the sale of high-tech medical care to foreigners has come to be called medical or health tourism”....
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...The lenient terms of litigation and poor justice system in developing countries makes it difficult for patients to earn their rights of undertaking legal proceedings [7]....
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...It becomes primary concern of tourism planners to address this topic prior to gaining confidence of Asian clients [29]....
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...According to Law [29], media plays an important role in altering destination of choice more for Asians as opposed to Westerners....
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...Although some writes have used the term “medical tourism” to incorporate all forms of health-related tourism [9] it seems to be more useful to distinguish ‘medical tourism’ as one involving specific medical interventions [1]....
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