Medical, health and wellness tourism research—A review of the literature (1970–2020) and research agenda

L Zhong, B Deng, AM Morrison… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Medical, health and wellness tourism and travel represent a dynamic and rapidly growing
multi-disciplinary economic activity and field of knowledge. This research responds to earlier …

Contemporary medical tourism: Conceptualisation, culture and commodification

J Connell - Tourism management, 2013 - Elsevier
An overview is given of the short history and rapid rise of medical tourism, its documentation,
and current knowledge and analysis of the industry. Definitions of medical tourism are …

Would you really recommend it? Antecedents of word-of-mouth in medical tourism

B Taheri, D Chalmers, J Wilson, N Arshed - Tourism Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Medical tourism (MT) is a valuable component of many national service economies.
Understanding the marketing and recruitment of MT patients is therefore an important …

Factors influencing medical tourism adoption in Malaysia: A DEMATEL-Fuzzy TOPSIS approach

M Nilashi, S Samad, AA Manaf, H Ahmadi… - Computers & Industrial …, 2019 - Elsevier
Tourism is one of the biggest competitive industries in the world. Nowadays, medical tourism
is quickly developing as a part of tourism for health and wellness care. There are many …

The medical tourism index: Scale development and validation

M Fetscherin, RM Stephano - Tourism Management, 2016 - Elsevier
Medical tourism is an estimated $100 billion dollar industry. Despite the increasing number
of people, companies and countries involved in medical tourism, we know very little about …

A GIS-based fuzzy-analytic hierarchy process (F-AHP) for ecotourism suitability decision making: A case study of Babol in Iran

H Zabihi, M Alizadeh, ID Wolf, M Karami… - Tourism Management …, 2020 - Elsevier
Managing ecotourism through appropriate zoning is critical for land use planning. This study
is the first to integrate a geographic information system (GIS) with a Fuzzy-Analytic Hierarchy …

Barriers to the development of medical tourism in East Azerbaijan province, Iran: A qualitative study

K Momeni, A Janati, A Imani, R Khodayari-Zarnaq - Tourism Management, 2018 - Elsevier
The purpose of the present study was to determine factors impeding the development of
medical tourism in East Azerbaijan province, Iran. The data were derived from interviews …

Knowledge management orientation and operational performance relationship in medical tourism (overview of the model performance in the COVID-19 pandemic and …

M Ghasemi, MG Nejad, I Aghaei - Health Services …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite the considerable growth of interest in medical tourism in the last decade, there is no
standard procedure to measure the pivotal factors in medical tourism destinations. Medical …

The role of information sources and image on the intention to visit a medical tourism destination: A cross-cultural analysis

A De La Hoz-Correa, F Muñoz-Leiva - Journal of Travel & Tourism …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper intends to analyze: 1) how information sources, eWOM, and image influence the
intention to visit a medical tourism destination; 2) the moderating role of culture and 3) cross …

Medical tourism: A snapshot of evidence on treatment abroad

N Lunt, D Horsfall, J Hanefeld - Maturitas, 2016 - Elsevier
The scoping review focuses on medical tourism, whereby consumers elect to travel across
borders or to overseas destinations to receive their treatment. Such treatments include …