scholarly journals “A Critical Analysis to Improve Medical Tourism and Hospitality”

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 210-213
Author(s):  
Dr. Abin George
Keyword(s):  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Treatment Center ◽  
Strategic Initiative ◽  
Specialty Hospitals ◽  
Price Hike ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Modern Era

Abstract: Medical tourism refers to visiting another country for medical care. The twentieth century witnessed the exorbitant price hike in medical treatment in the developed countries. Hospitality has proven its incredible potentials in most of the countries and its signature power in the modern era. Similarly, hospitality is capable to cure diseases with its magical flair of service in a hospital or treatment center. The study aims to determine the challenges of hospitality in medical tourism, improve key areas and build a strategic initiative to improve the performance of a country's medical tourism for the smooth visit of tourists. The researcher has framed research questions and distributed the questionnaires in 3 multi-specialty hospitals which are placed in the hubs of medical tourism in India. The data gathered of a hundred samples are analyzed and interpreted using a 5-point Likert scale. The need for improvements in the state, central policy, execution of in-house hospitality as well as distinct international lounges for patience and bystanders are needed. The study emphasizes the significance of a new medical tourism model and suggests a mechanism for implementing it. Keywords: Hospitality, Hospital, Diet, Medical Tourism, Visitor

scholarly journals A Study on Customer Perception of Medical Tourism in Puducherry

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-75
Author(s):  
C Shanthi Marie ◽  
Sampad Kumar Swain
Keyword(s):  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Medical Treatments ◽  
Customer Perception ◽  
Private Healthcare ◽  
The World ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Union Territory

Medical tourism is the latest trend happening in many countries of the world where tourists in need of medical treatments from the developed countries approach the developing countries imparting treatments at par with the quality of their home countries.  Among the countries practicing medical tourism, India is occupying one of the top positions with respect to the quality treatments as most of the states have recognized its significance.  This study aims at studying the customer perception of medical tourism in the union territory of Puducherry.  The units of the study are the international medical tourists who sought medical treatments in the private healthcare hospitals of Puducherry. The methodology used for the study is descriptive, analytical and inferential. Factor Analysis, T-test and ANOVA are the tools utilized for analyzing the primary data. The study reveals that the facilities provided to foreign patients are customer oriented. The satisfaction level of patients regarding the staff interaction, facilities and amenities and treatment are high. But, there is some need of improvement in the case of formalities and tourism part.  The efficiency of the doctors, their personal touch, their communication skills, the facilities and amenities of the hospitals contributes to the cutting edge experience by the medical tourists. One important drawback is the lack of international accreditation which needs utmost ground work. The study finally suggests strategies for motivating the medical tourists undertaking healthcare treatments in Puducherry. 

The Growth of Medical Tourism

2015 ◽  
pp. 365-378
Author(s):  
Jerry Eades
Keyword(s):  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Travel Agents ◽  
Massive Growth ◽  
Wellness Tourism ◽  
The Developed Countries

In the late 2000s, the author wrote a summary paper on the rise of medical tourism. That paper discussed the rapid growth of interest in medical, health and wellness tourism, especially since 2003. The medical tourism industry has a long history, but this massive growth is a new phenomenon. The important factors are: the changing distribution of medical services and technologies; the growth of interest among both local medical practitioners and travel agents; the packaging of tourism and medical services as a single product; and, most significantly, the availability of the Internet to disseminate information them, creating a global market. The present chapter considers first the burgeoning literature on medical tourism. Second, the processes of development in countries becoming the main players in the international provision of medical services are discussed. Third, the chapter looks at the debates surrounding the rise of medical tourism in the developed countries.

scholarly journals RESEPSI ATAS PERUPA JERMAN PADA HARIAN KOMPAS DAN MAJALAH TEMPO EDISI 2000 – 2007

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dian Swandayani ◽  
Nurhadi Nurhadi ◽  
Iman Santoso
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Reception Theory ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Modern Era

Indonesian culture gets a big influence of foreign culture. The acculturation of the culture has been going on until today. Media becomes a vehicle for spreading the foreign culture in the modern era. In the media certain values are contested to gain major influence. One of the cultural aspects getting the foreign cultural influence is fine arts. In this field, Germany is one of the developed  countries that develop fine arts and promote (penetrate) culture, particularly fine arts, to other countries in the world, including Indonesia. Regarding the fact, this article tries to explain the Indonesian society’s reception of German fine artists and their works as reflected in articles published in Kompas daily and Tempo magazine in 2000-2007 edition. Reception theory and content analysis were used in this study that tried to find the pattern and form of acculturation of German culture in Indonesia today

scholarly journals Demographic change as a driver for tourism automation

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Webster ◽  
Stanislav Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Developed Countries ◽  
Human Reproduction ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss how demographic changes in developed countries will continue to drive the tourism and hospitality industries to adopt automation in business operations. Design/methodology/approach The approach is an analysis of the trends in human reproduction in the developed countries and a discussion of their implications for the travel, tourism and hospitality industries. Findings There are three major solutions to the demographic problem faced in developed countries and the replacement of human labour with automation is the most practical, immediate and has the fewest risks and negative externalities. Practical implications Industry has to adapt to the new demographic reality and embrace automation of services, educate their customers and have policies to deal with the resistance expected by labour. Social implications Society can expect that many of the tasks they commonly expect humans to be involved in will be done by machines and artificial intelligence in the near future, if demographic trends continue and massive immigration into developed countries is not a continuing phenomenon. Originality/value This links the relationship between demographic trends to the use of automation in the travel, tourism and hospitality industries.

scholarly journals New types of tourism and tourism marketing in the post-industrial world

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 33-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
László Árva ◽  
Zsuzsa Deli-Gray
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Tourism Demand ◽  
Tourism Marketing ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality Industry ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Post Industrial

At the end of the 20th century in the most developed countries economy and society went through profound transformation. The emerging post-industrial society can be characterised by the dominance of service industry, more leisure time of the population, higher disposable income and more conscious consumers. These conscious consumers are more and more quality orientated and reject undifferentiated mass products. New customers of tourism and hospitality industry are not only more affluent – so less price conscious – and more quality orientated but they are also seeking activity, participation, fantasy, and experience. These new types of tourists are interested rather in aesthetic aspects of life and are seeking highly differentiated, personalised experience. In the following article the authors, professors of the French ESSCA business school overview theoretical aspects of new, post-Fordist tourism demand and present examples of the new tourism and hospitality products having emerged in the developed countries during the last years.

scholarly journals New types of tourism and tourism marketing in the post-industrial world

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
László Árva ◽  
Zsuzsa Deli-Gray
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Tourism Demand ◽  
Tourism Marketing ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality Industry ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Post Industrial

At the end of the 20th century in the most developed countries economy and society went through profound transformation. The emerging post-industrial society can be characterised by the dominance of service industry, more leisure time of the population, higher disposable income and more conscious consumers. These conscious consumers are more and more quality orientated and reject undifferentiated mass products. New customers of tourism and hospitality industry are not only more affluent – so less price conscious – and more quality orientated but they are also seeking activity, participation, fantasy, and experience. These new types of tourists are interested rather in aesthetic aspects of life and are seeking highly differentiated, personalised experience. In the following article the authors, professors of the French ESSCA business school overview theoretical aspects of new, post-Fordist tourism demand and present examples of the new tourism and hospitality products having emerged in the developed countries during the last years.  

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF CHANGE AGENTS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION IN FIRMS

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hargo Utomo
Keyword(s):  
Change Agents ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Main Research ◽  
It Diffusion ◽  
Institutional Influences ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Developed Countries

The role of change agents in technological diffusion and innovation at firm level has been addressed in published literature mostly within the context of the developed countries. However, the involvement of change agents in the diffusion and adoption of IT-based innovations by small and medium-sized firms in the developing countries is largely unexplored. The main research questions are why and how management decisions to adopt and use IT are influenced (if any) by the interactions of key people in firms with several identified change agents. Case studies are used as the preferred approach to answer the research questions and to understand the qualitative aspects of IT diffusion at the level of the firm. The study concludes that IT diffusion in small and medium-sized firms expose mixed institutional influences. The mechanism by which change agents are involved in IT diffusion is also unique and is claimed to be different from that is generally found in other studies in this area. Some policy implications are proposed by this study.

How to Assure Stable Development in Unstable Financial Environment?

2007 ◽  
pp. 4-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ershov
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Market Liquidity ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Russian Stock Market ◽  
Stable Development ◽  
Financial Environment

Growing involvement of Russian economy in international economic sphere increases the role of external risks. Financial problems which the developed countries are encountered with today result in volatility of Russian stock market, liquidity problems for banks, unstable prices. These factors in total may put longer-term prospects of economic growth in jeopardy. Monetary, foreign exchange and stock market mechanisms become the centerpiece of economic policy approaches which should provide for stable development in the shaky environment.

The Reproduction Vector of the Russian Economy: 1999-2007

2008 ◽  
pp. 94-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Sorokin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
Real Sector ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Developed Countries

The problem of the Russian economy’s growth rates is considered in the article in the context of Russia’s backwardness regarding GDP per capita in comparison with the developed countries. The author stresses the urgency of modernization of the real sector of the economy and the recovery of the country’s human capital. For reaching these goals short- or mid-term programs are not sufficient. Economic policy needs a long-term (15-20 years) strategy, otherwise Russia will be condemned to economic inertia and multiplying structural disproportions.

Power Generation for India with Higher Efficiency

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Umeshkannan P ◽  
Muthurajan KG
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Objective Function ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Power Requirement ◽  
Average Efficiency ◽  
Potential Demand ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Developed Nations

The developed countries are consuming more amount of energy in all forms including electricity continuously with advanced technologies.  Developing  nation’s  energy usage trend rises quickly but very less in comparison with their population and  their  method of generating power is not  seems  to  be  as  advanced  as  developed  nations. The   objective   function   of   this   linear   programming model is to maximize the average efficiency of power generation inIndia for 2020 by giving preference to energy efficient technologies. This model is subjected to various constraints like potential, demand, running cost and Hydrogen / Carbon ratio, isolated load, emission and already installed capacities. Tora package is used to solve this linear program. Coal,  Gas,  Hydro  and  Nuclear  sources can are  supply around 87 %  of  power  requirement .  It’s concluded that we can produce power  at  overall  efficiency  of  37%  while  meeting  a  huge demand  of  13,00,000  GWh  of  electricity.  The objective function shows the scenario of highaverage efficiency with presence of 9% renewables. Maximum value   is   restricted   by   low   renewable   source’s efficiencies, emission constraints on fossil fuels and cost restriction on some of efficient technologies. This    model    shows    that    maximum    18%    of    total requirement   can   be   met   by   renewable itself which reduces average efficiency to 35.8%.   Improving technologies  of  renewable  sources  and  necessary  capacity addition  to  them in  regular  interval  will  enhance  their  role and existence against fossil fuels in future. The work involves conceptualizing, modeling, gathering information for data’s to be used in model for problem solving and presenting different scenarios for same objective.

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