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 …

Health tourism strategy selection via SWOT analysis and integrated hesitant fuzzy linguistic AHP-MABAC approach

G Büyüközkan, E Mukul, E Kongar - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Health tourism focuses on the organizational and operational aspects of commercial trips for
the treatment of individuals. In line with the economic growth, the industry has evolved …

Map** the Sustainable Development in Health Tourism: A Systematic Literature Review

N Figueiredo, JL Abrantes, S Costa - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Health tourism is recognised as a growing industry. Therefore, sustainable development in
health tourism is crucial not only for the well-being of patients but also for destinations and …

The effects of community safety support on COVID‐19 event strength perception, risk perception, and health tourism intention: The moderating role of risk …

Y Cheng, S Fang, J Yin - Managerial and Decision Economics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The community is crucial in preventing COVID‐19 pandemic. By employing 313 online
surveys, it is found that the community safety support enhances risk perception, disruption …

Effect of the event strength of the coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) on potential online organic agricultural product consumption and rural health tourism opportunities

J Yin, Y Chen, Y Ji - Managerial and Decision Economics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) outbreak has raised consumer concerns about health.
By employing 306 online questionnaires, we identify COVID‐19's effect on online organic …

Current knowledge and future research directions of medical tourism: insights from a bibliometric analysis

N Dhakate, R Joshi, F Ali, S Kumar - Asia Pacific Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The increasing number of published articles indicate the growth in the literature on medical
tourism (MT). Using the performance analysis, we identify publication trends, most-cited …

Welfare-improving policy on medical tourism and labor productivity: A theoretical analysis

H Beladi, CC Chao, MS Ee, D Hollas - Economic Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper considers welfare and wage inequality effects of develo** medical tourism on
the host country from a theoretical point of view. Due to the competition between public …

Establishment of a value evaluation system for health and wellness tourism resources: Reflections on China's official tourism resource evaluation criteria

M Zhou, H Luo, J Hong, D Gao, Y Shen, M Liang - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
In recent years, China's sub-healthy and aging populations have increased dramatically,
giving rise to a series of health and wellness needs. People prefer health and wellness …

Revealing the effectiveness of tourism development on health in Asian economies

Y Song, ZW Su, R Tao, A Umut - Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Most Asian economies consist of tourism attraction destinations. The traditional literature
explores the cultural, social, and economic effects of tourism; thus, there exists a vacuum …

Tourists' perception of health tourism before and after COVID‐19

L Zhong, S Sun, R Law, X Qi - International Journal of Tourism …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Health tourism has received increasing attention from academic researchers from a global
perspective. Although mainland China (hereafter referred to as “China”) has long been …