Medical tourism destination image and its relationship with the intention to revisit: A study of Chinese medical tourists in Malaysia

TH Cham, YM Lim, BC Sia, JH Cheah… - Journal of China tourism …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Medical tourism in Malaysia has grown over the years and has become a promising
industry. However, due to the establishment of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), we see …

Medical tourism development: A systematic review of economic aspects

M Hadian, A Jabbari, SH Mousavi… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The tourism industry is one of the largest and most productive economic activities in the
world that directly and indirectly affects other economic and cultural activities. The purpose …

A decade of medical tourism research: Looking back to moving forward

M Arief, M Hamsal, SB Abdinagoro - Journal of Hospitality and …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This article aims to know the direction of current research based on the previous
research in the last ten years (2012–2021). Design/methodology/approach Text mining was …

Health tourism and government supports

M Shabankareh, A Nazarian… - International Journal of …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Health tourism is a relatively new branch of international tourism that has
developed more rapidly than other tourism sectors in recent years. This study aimed to …

Ranking of sustainable medical tourism destinations in Iran: an integrated approach using fuzzy SWARA-PROMETHEE

P Ghasemi, A Mehdiabadi, C Spulbar, R Birau - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Today, medical tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors of the tourism industry around
the world. Medical tourism can contribute to the sustainable development and economic …

Can cost and quality management-oriented innovation enhance patient satisfaction in medical tourist destination?

M Ghasemi, SA Sahranavard, UV Alola… - Journal of Quality …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the active contribution, promotion, and emergent in medical tourism, few studies
have examined the significant contribution of cost and quality management-oriented …

Revisiting the intention to travel framework in the perspective of medical tourism: The role of eWord-of-mouth and destination image

M Farrukh, IA Shahzad, M Sajid… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The role of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) and destination image has been extensively
studied in the tourism literature; however, from the perspective of medical tourism, it is yet to …

Sustainable medical tourism: Investigating health-care travel in Indonesia and Malaysia

RT Ratnasari, S Gunawan, AA Pitchay… - … Journal of Healthcare …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Medical tourism has developed rapidly and international health care has become a global
industry. Indonesia has a great opportunity in the field of medical tourism, but Malaysia still …

Application of a decision-making tool for ranking wellness tourism destinations

AP Lopes, N Rodríguez-López - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
One of the tourism industry's segments with the strongest growth rates today is health
tourism. Health tourism includes two subgroups: medical tourism (traveling outside one's …

Determinants of medical tourism: Application of fuzzy analytical hierarchical process

S Guru, A Sinha, P Kautish - International Journal of Emerging …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The study aims to facilitate the medical tourists visiting emerging countries for
various kinds of ailments by ranking the possible destinations to avail medical treatments …