scholarly journals Sustainable Governance on the Intention of Medical Tourism in Uzbekistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6915
Author(s):  
Yongrok Choi ◽  
Zamira Ashurova ◽  
Hyoungsuk Lee
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Promotion Policies ◽  
Core Condition

Medical tourism is a growing niche market with huge potential as the 6th industry of medical services, including an unforgettable trip. Due to these advantages, Uzbekistan hopes to be a leader in central Asia concerning medical tourism. Contrary to this ambitious goal, Uzbekistan patients still prefer going abroad for medical services. Therefore, in order for Uzbekistan to be a hub for medical tourism, the sustainable governance factors of medical tourism need to be found for local patients going overseas. Under this research motivation, this study evaluates how the medical, tourism, and information sharing factors influence behavioral intention based on the structural equation model (SEM) with a random sample of 498 residents in Uzbekistan. Perceived value and behavioral intention are used as a mediating variable and a dependent variable, respectively. The main findings are summarized as follows. First, the medical factor and information sharing are very important factors for behavioral intention, with high coefficient values of 0.399 and 0.516, respectively, while the tourism factor is not influential on the behavioral intention statistically. This implies that Uzbekistani patients do not consider tourism factors as a core condition, instead focusing on the service quality of the medical operation and convenience for foreign patients. Second, in the indirect model, we found that perceived value takes a fully mediating role between medical factors and behavioral intention, while it takes a partially mediating role between information sharing and behavioral intention, implying that strong promotion policies are required for the advantages of tourism and enhanced access to information.

A Study on Factors Affecting on Customer Intention to Use the Express Bus

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (5E) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phuong Nguyen Van ◽  
Hieu Trung Nguyen ◽  
Toan Bao Le
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Organizational Image ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Managerial Implications

The improvement of transit service quality is an essential role in developing urban and interstate transportation. The local government, as well as bus service companies, should understand the behavioral intention of passengers to meet their expectation and requirements. This paper aims to highlight such behavioral decision and investigate dominant factors that influence the customers’ decision to use the express bus. The study explores the case of express bus companies in Tay Ninh province, Vietnam. By using the structural equation model approach to analyze the data collected from 295 passengers, who have experienced in using the express bus, the results reveal that service quality has a significantly positive relationship with both perceived value and corporate image. Specifically, customer satisfaction and organizational image also positively influence behavioral intention. Meanwhile, service quality indirectly affects on behavioral intention throughout perceived value and corporate image. Based on the findings, we provided some insightful managerial implications and recommendations to managers of bus carriers, and valuable practical suggestions to policymakers in the local government of Tay Ninh province to improve the service quality to encourage more citizens to use the express bus.

scholarly journals KUALITAS LAYANAN WISATA MEDIS YANG MEMPENGARUHI KEPUASAN DAN LOYALITAS WISATAWAN MANCANEGARA DI BALI

2019 ◽  
pp. 348
Author(s):  
Yudha Eka Nugraha ◽  
Syamsul Alam Paturusi ◽  
Ni Made Sofia Wijaya
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Tourist Satisfaction ◽  
Medical Clinics ◽  
Main Variable

Medical Tourism is a potential sector to develop in Bali. Medical clinics offer various medical services treatment to attract tourists. The clinics must have an excellent quality of standard services to get customers satisfaction. The aim of this study is to analyze the influence of the medical services quality on tourist satisfaction and tourist loyalty in Radiance Clinic Bali. They were about 200 respondents and selected using accidental sampling technique. The analysis uses Structural Equation Model (SEM), calculated with AMOS program. The result of research examines that service quality is a main variable with significance effects on the satisfaction and loyalty of tourists’ customers in Bali. Results of the research indicated that there is direct effect between service quality to satisfaction and satisfaction to loyalty. On the other hand, indirect effect happens between service quality to loyalty. Keywords: Service Quality, Tourist Satisfaction, Tourist Loyalty

scholarly journals Kualitas Layanan Wisata Medis Yang Mempengaruhi Loyalitas Wisatawan Berkunjung Ke Bali

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-86
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Services Quality ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Sem Analysis ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Tourist Satisfaction

Recent years, medical tourism began to develop in Bali. This phenomenon indicated by a proliferation of medical clinics that offer a various medical services treatment to tourists. In order to be chosen by tourists, clinics must have an outstanding medical services quality for winning the competition and for the sake of customers’ satisfaction. The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of the medical services quality on the tourists’ satisfaction in Radiance Clinic Bali. The number of samples specified in this study were 200 respondents chosen by accidental sampling technique. This study uses Structural Equation Model (SEM) analysis, computed with AMOS program. The results of this research analysis states that each indicator of service quality should be maintained and improved to boost satisfaction. Regarding on the results of the 200 participating respondents showed that satisfaction caused by outstanding service quality of medical tourism in Bali for the future needs. Keywords: Service Quality, Tourist Satisfaction, Clinics in Bali

scholarly journals The Effect of Dining Atmospherics to Perceived Value, Customer Satisfaction, and Behavioral Intention With Double Decker Restaurant in Solo Baru as Research Object

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rizky Ayu Khoiriyana ◽  
Wisnu Untoro
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Double Decker ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Significant Positive Influence

The purpose this study is to examine the impact of Dining Atmospherics, Perceived Value, Customer Satisfaction, and Behavioral Intentions in Restaurant Double Decker at Solo Baru, Indonesia. We distribute questionnaires to 150 consumers of Restaurant Double Decker Solo Baru who visited more than three times. Using Structural Equation Model (SEM) assisted by AMOS application program, the results showed that Behavioral Intention have a significant positive influence on the dependent variable that is Atmospherics, and the dependent variable that is Atmospherics also have a significant positive effect on the mediating variable, Customer Satisfaction, and Perceived Value, then the Customer Satisfaction has a significant positive influence on independent variables of Behavioral Intention.

scholarly journals Harmonization of Green Motives and Green Business Strategies towards Sustainable Development of Hospitality and Tourism Industry: Green Environmental Policies

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6592
Author(s):  
Zahid Yousaf ◽  
Magdalena Radulescu ◽  
Crenguta Ileana Sinisi ◽  
Luminita Serbanescu ◽  
Loredana Maria Paunescu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Green Business ◽  
Hospitality And Tourism Industry

This study aims to investigate the direct impact of green motives (GM) and green business strategies (GBS) on sustainable development (SD) in the hospitality sector. It explores the direct links between GM and SD. Moreover, the mediating role of GBS between GM and SD was tested. The research relies on the stakeholders’ theory, which states that the organization’s success and future development depends on the satisfaction of stakeholders. Data were collected from 451 top managers and owners from 54 hotels (5, 4 and 3-star hotels) operating in Pakistan. Quantitative analysis including correlation, regression, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation model techniques were used. The mediating role of GBS was assessed using the bootstrapping method. Results proved that GM and GBS enable hotel industry to achieve the targets of SD. Finding also proved that GBS act as a mediator between the GM and SD link. The hotel industry needs attention to achieve the targets of SD and customers’ inclination towards more hygienic and environmental issues after the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic situation has forced the hotel industry to adapt GBS initiated through GM. The current research articulated this upcoming issue and offered a SD model for the hotel industry.

scholarly journals The Mediating Role of Job Competence between Safety Participation and Behavioral Compliance

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 5783
Author(s):  
Jia-Ming Wang ◽  
Pin-Chao Liao ◽  
Guan-Biao Yu
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Behavioral Compliance ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Chinese Company ◽  
Job Competence

The effective improvement of employee behavioral compliance and safety performance is an important subject related to the sustainable development of the construction industry. Based on data from a Chinese company (n = 290), this study used a partial least squares-structural equation model to clarify the relationship among safety participation, job competence, and behavioral compliance. Empirical analysis found that: (1) safety participation had a significant positive impact on employees’ behavioral compliance; and (2) job competence played a partial mediating role between safety participation and behavioral compliance. By selecting two new perspectives of safety participation and job competence, this study derived new factors affecting behavioral compliance, constructed a new theory about safety management, and conducted an in-depth discussion on improving behavioral compliance theoretically. Practically, the research put forward a new decision-making model, deconstructed the mechanism between safety participation and behavioral compliance, and provided new guiding strategies for improving employee behavioral compliance.

Effects of social attachment on social media continuous usage intention: The mediating role of affective commitment

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Maosheng Yang ◽  
Shangui Hu ◽  
Bagna Essohanam Kpandika ◽  
Lei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Attachment ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Continuous Usage Intention

BACKGROUND: Social attachment has been identified as a key antecedent motivating users’ social media involvement. However, there is a scarcity of research investigating whether and how three dimensions of social attachment exert impacts on users’ continuous usage intention of social media. OBJECTIVE: Based on structural equation model analysis, the current research clarifies the relationships between social attachment, affective commitment and social media continuous usage intention, which unveils the underlying mechanism through which three dimensions of social attachment influence users’ continuous usage intention of social media. METHODS: A survey was conducted with 536 informative responses obtained from TikTok public users for hypothesis testing analysis. RESULTS: Results indicate that three dimensions of social attachment (social connections, social dependence and social identity) are all positively related to users’ continuous usage intention of social media. Affective commitment partially mediates the relationship between social attachment and users’ continuous usage intention of social media. CONCLUSIONS: The current research makes an in-depth study about the underlying mechanism whereby social attachment exerts impacts on social media continuous usage intentionand provides several managerial and theoretical implications. Future research directions are discussed as well.

The effect of perceived organisational politics on organisational silence through organisational cynicism: Moderator role of perceived support

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadi A. AL-Abrrow
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Perceived Support ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Moderator Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Organisational Politics

AbstractThis study examines the effect of perceived organisational politics on organisational silence through the mediating role of organisational cynicism. In addition, it tests the effect of perceived support on this relationship. A quantitative (questionnaire survey) design was used to gather data from 346 employees in three public hospitals in Iraq. The structural equation model was used for data analysis. The results demonstrate that all the major hypotheses were accepted, and important role of perceived support in reversing the positive relationship between perceived organisational politics and organisational cynicism was also highlighted. Furthermore, the mediating role was clear in terms of organisational cynicism and the relationship between perceived organisational politics and organisational silence.

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