The study of the influencing relationship between medical tourism motivation, perceived risk, and loyalty of Chinese medical tourists of Korea : Focused on the verification of mediating effects of medical tourism service quality

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 217-243
Author(s):  
Sujung Lee ◽  
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Kyuhwan Choi
Author(s):  
Bikash Ranjan Debata ◽  
S. S. Mahapatra ◽  
Bhaswati Patnaik

Medical tourism, a growing phenomenon in the world today, possesses a worthwhile potential for the economic development of any country. Globalization, development of information and communication technology (ICT) and adherence to the international quality standards potentially result in a significant increase in the movement of patients and healthcare professionals across national boundaries. The demand for medical tourism in India is experiencing a tremendous growth. However, the Indian medical tourism sector faces various challenges. Since India attempts to position itself as one of the preferred global medical tourism hub, a thorough understanding of means to attract, satisfy and retain medical tourists is extremely important. Five hundred and thirty four (534) useful responses in two different phases is collected and tested to examine the validity and reliability of the scale to ensure a quantitative and statistically proven identification of the responses. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is used to identify the underlying dimensions of medical tourism service quality for medical tourism in India. Next, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to confirm the factor structure of the constructs and validate EFA results.


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-672
Author(s):  
Yeong-Gug Kim ◽  
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Jang-Hyeon Nam ◽  
Norboeva Victoria ◽  
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10.19082/3905 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 3905-3911
Author(s):  
Mohammad Qolipour ◽  
Amin Toraipour ◽  
Farzad Faraji Khiavi ◽  
Amal Saki Malehi

2016 ◽  
pp. 1433-1464
Author(s):  
Bikash Ranjan Debata ◽  
S. S. Mahapatra ◽  
Bhaswati Patnaik

Medical tourism, a growing phenomenon in the world today, possesses a worthwhile potential for the economic development of any country. Globalization, development of information and communication technology (ICT) and adherence to the international quality standards potentially result in a significant increase in the movement of patients and healthcare professionals across national boundaries. The demand for medical tourism in India is experiencing a tremendous growth. However, the Indian medical tourism sector faces various challenges. Since India attempts to position itself as one of the preferred global medical tourism hub, a thorough understanding of means to attract, satisfy and retain medical tourists is extremely important. Five hundred and thirty four (534) useful responses in two different phases is collected and tested to examine the validity and reliability of the scale to ensure a quantitative and statistically proven identification of the responses. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is used to identify the underlying dimensions of medical tourism service quality for medical tourism in India. Next, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to confirm the factor structure of the constructs and validate EFA results.


BISMA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Indah Cahyani Santoso ◽  
Erna Andajani ◽  
Veny Megawati

This study aims to analyze the factors that influence tourists to travel for medical tourism in Malaysia. The four main factors used were destination competitiveness, service quality, tourist attitudes, and costs, with 6 additional factors as supporting factors. This study used a quantitative approach. The data were analyzed using Confirmatory Factor Analysis run by SPSS and AMOS 22.0. The sampling technique used was non-probability sampling with the sample consisted of 100 respondents. Results showed that there were 44 elements adopted from the study.  Based on the anti-image results, 5 factors were removed. According to the component rotation matrix table, 9 factors influence tourists to visit Malaysia for medical tourism. Then, these 9 factors labelled with the new names, i.e., internal and external factor, location attractiveness, ease of accommodation and services, tourist attraction and service quality, transportation and political condition, information and environment, medical service quality, medical tourism and language, and medical personnel. Keywords: cost, destination competitiveness , medical tourism , service quality, tourist attitude


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