scholarly journals Iranian Medical Tourism Industry and Selected Countries in 2020: A Comparative Study

Health Scope ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalil Momeni ◽  
Ali Jannati ◽  
Rahim Khodayari-Zarnaq ◽  
Shabnam Ghasemyani ◽  
Mohamadreza Havasian
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Low Rank ◽  
Healthcare Industry ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Competitive Prices ◽  
Organizational Integration ◽  
Better Than

Background: Today, medical tourism is a growing phenomenon in the healthcare industry, especially among developing countries. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to compare the Iranian medical tourism industry with selected countries. Methods: This comparative study was conducted in 2020. Data were gathered from databases, including PubMed, Web of Knowledge, Scopus, Magiran, SID, and websites of the World Tourism Association, the Ministry of Tourism, and the Ministry of Health of the selected countries from 2000 to 2020. A researcher-made checklist was used to collect data. Selected countries were compared in terms of the status of tourism and travel competitiveness, governance and policy-making status, the status of the medical tourism industry, and medical tourism infrastructure Results: The main difference between the selected countries and Iran lies in the organizational structure of the main stakeholders of the tourism industry. In other countries, this industry is organized and supervised by specific coordination bodies. In terms of tourism and travel competitiveness, Singapore, with a global rank of 17, was better than other countries. Based on the status of the medical tourism industry, Costa Rica ranked 7th in the world, and Singapore, the UAE (Dubai), Turkey, UAE (Abu Dhabi), Jordan, and Iran ranked 15, 22, 27, 31 35, and 41, respectively. In Iran, all indicators of medical tourism infrastructure were lower than those of other countries except for competitive prices. Conclusions: Considering a low rank of Iran in all the studied components, the organizational integration structure of the medical tourism industry and increasing competitiveness can help the development of this industry in Iran.

scholarly journals Surveying Healthcare Facilities for Tourists in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Rajat Shandilya ◽  
◽  
Bhagyesh Acharya ◽  
Mayank ◽  
Monika Garg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Foreign Currency ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
High Quality Medical Care

India is quickly becoming one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. The rise of India as a tourist destination can be attributed to a number of factors. The growth of medical tourism in India is one of the reasons examined in this paper. Healthcare tourism is when people from all over the world fly to another country to receive medical, dental, and surgical treatment when exploring, vacationing, and completely immersing themselves in the attractions of the countries they are visiting. In the medical tourism industry, India is one of the most popular destinations. Medical tourism is experiencing rapid growth in India. Medical tourists cross foreign boundaries in search of medical care. Medical tourism has developed to become a multibillion-dollar industry. It is important to remember that the primary goal of medical tourists is to provide high-quality medical care at an affordable cost. When compared to other developing countries in the world, India has emerged as the most sought-after destination for medical tourists due to the availability of world-class doctors at affordable prices. In addition, India has a wide range of tourist destinations. It has tremendous potential for creating jobs and earning large sums of foreign currency. The paper ends with policy recommendations for advancing the rapidly growing medical tourism industry.

Global Medical Tourism

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Sukanya Banerjee ◽  
Siddhartha Sankar Nath ◽  
Nilanjan Dey ◽  
Hajime Eto
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Cost Benefits ◽  
The World ◽  
Developed Nations

Medical tourism is related to the travel of patients from one country to another in order to obtain medical treatment in that country. There are several countries worldwide promoting medical tourism and attracting patients. Most of the developing nations attract the patients because of cost benefits whereas the developed nations attract patients who require complex surgeries or any kind of advanced medical treatment. The main aim of this research paper is to focus on the development of medical tourism industry, worldwide. Medical Tourism industry throughout the world is growing at a fast rate. It has huge potential for generating employment and earning large amount of foreign exchange. This will help in the country's overall economic development. Medical tourism incorporates multi-dimensional activity but basically it is a service industry. Hence, medical tourism is a vital revenue earning source especially for the developing nations. Hence, it can be said that it is a win situation for both the patients as well as the destination countries.

Medical Tourism

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-42
Author(s):  
Oğuz Doğan
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Market Shares ◽  
Global Demand ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level ◽  
Demand For Health

The number of travels around the world to benefit from health services provided abroad is increasing every year. The high level of global demand for health services has influenced the rapid development of the medical tourism industry. Due to these developments in the industry, a global market has emerged, the medical tourism market. Countries operating in the industry are also striving to gain share from this large market or to increase their existing market shares. In this study, different perspective on global phenomenon, medical tourism, medical tourism market, and leader destinations in the industry are examined in detail.

scholarly journals Opportunity recognition for small businesses in medical tourism in Taiwan

2018 ◽  
Vol 169 ◽  
pp. 01024
Author(s):  
Ying-Hsun Hung ◽  
Jerome Chih-Lung Chou ◽  
Jung Ma ◽  
Ching-pei Lin
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
National Development ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Opportunity Recognition ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
The Status ◽  
Catch Up

Medical tourism has become an investment focus for many Asian countries. For example, India, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea, and Malaysia have governmental projects to foster this emerging industry, and successfully attract millions of medical tourists each year. Medical tourism consists of diverse industries that can provide abundant opportunities of new businesses. Currently Taiwan is trying to catch up in this trend by making national development policies, setting up institutions, modifying laws and regulations, and encouraging investment of private sector. The purpose of this study is to analyze the status quo of international medical tourism in Taiwan, and identify several opportunities for small businesses to catch and to participate in forming a solid medical tourism industry for Taiwan.

scholarly journals Wildlife diversity along the altitudinal gradients in the Garhwal Himalaya

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-114
Author(s):  
Ravindra Singh ◽  
◽  
Renu Raturi ◽  
Rakesh Dhodi ◽  
Rashmi Dhodi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Biological System ◽  
Musk Deer ◽  
Tree Line ◽  
Fundamental Significance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Microclimatic Conditions ◽  
Over Exploitation ◽  
Better Than

Rich biodiversity is of fundamental significance for the foundation and adaptability of the precipitous biological system. In any case, this huge biodiversity begins vanishing at a quick rate because of human interference and over-exploitation of timberland and other common assets. The status of wildlife in Uttarakhand at Himalaya is much better than in other regions of India. But it becomes slowly disappearing due to the human encroachment and over-exploitation of forest and other natural resources. Musk Deer along the higher spans and Sambar, Yelping Deer, and so forth underneath the tree line are significant warm-blooded creatures. The present investigation was done in the Garhwal Himalayan region of Uttarakhand to uncover the effect of height and microclimatic conditions on wildlife. It is extremely vital and very fundamental for the individuals of the present era to go profoundly through the world of wildlife.

scholarly journals COVID-19 testing in India in comparison to the rest of the world. If Indian testing strategy was replicated in the other top 15 COVID-19 affected countries in the world, the status would be startlingly different

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 107-109
Author(s):  
Purvish M. Parikh ◽  
Ajay Bapna ◽  
M. Vamshi Krishna ◽  
Prashant Mehta ◽  
Shyam Aggarwal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Absolute Number ◽  
The Other ◽  
Testing Strategy ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Positive Results ◽  
Better Than

In terms of the absolute number of COVID-19 positive cases, India is among the top four countries in the world. There is a lot of unwarranted criticism about the alleged inadequacy of COVID-19 testing in India. The facts available from international and publicly available online non-government source covering the entire world show otherwise. While India is fourth in terms of an absolute number of cases, its rank is 132nd in terms of cases per million population and 107th for deaths per million population. These are indications that India is doing much better in the battle against COVID-19 than it is getting credit for. The correct benchmark for the adequacy of testing is the percentage of COVID-19 positive results as compared to the total number of tests performed. India ranks 5th (out of 215) in this respect – being better than some western countries such as the USA, Spain, and France. Thus, the Indian strategy for COVID-19 testing is better and more appropriate than the majority of other countries with the large absolute number of positive cases.

scholarly journals Medical Tourism Markets: Models of Sustainability. The Case of Spain and The Costa del Sol (Malaga)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 8818
Author(s):  
Ricardo Pagan ◽  
Daniel Horsfall
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Domestic Industry ◽  
Competitive Prices ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Near Future

The interest and relevance of medical tourism has increased significantly over the last few decades, and it has become a very lucrative source of income and profit for many firms. This paper analyses the sustainability of the medical tourism model in Spain in general, and in The Costa del Sol (Spain) in particular, in order to investigate the potential challenges that the domestic industry will face in the future. For this purpose, we first analysed the process of the globalization of health services and the main characteristics of the Spanish medical tourism industry (in terms of tourism and health services). Second, we examined the data availability on medical tourism for the cases of Spain, Andalusia and The Costa del Sol, and identified who travels, why, and for what reasons. The results show that Spain and The Costa del Sol offer high-quality medical and tourism facilities and services with very competitive prices, and with the high commitment and support of public local authorities, tourism and health providers, and universities. However, the lack of a real leadership, well-defined strategy, financial support, and specific training programs are considered to be crucial challenges for the near future. In addition to this, the novel coronavirus, the economic crisis, Brexit and the situation of British expats living in Spain and The Costa del sol are also discussed.

A genre-based investigation of the “About Us” section of private hospitals’ Websites

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasser Salimi Aghbolagh ◽  
Azirah Hashim ◽  
Cecilia Cheong Yin Mei
Keyword(s):  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cognitive Structures ◽  
Private Hospitals ◽  
Rhetorical Structure ◽  
The World

Abstract Medical tourism industry is currently viewed as one of the lucrative sources of income for some countries and in essence, owes much of its reputation and success to private hospitals and the Internet (Connell, 2006). However, how these private hospitals discursively present themselves to prospective health tourists in order to entice them to use their medical services rather than their rivals’ still remains under-researched. Following the ESP genre school, this study seeks to explore the “About Us” sections of private hospitals’ websites and aims to see how such sections are rhetorically designed and constructed. Using Bhatia’s (1993, 2004) move structures for promotional texts, this study examines the rhetorical structure of the constituent webpages of the “About Us” sections of forty-one Malaysian private hospitals’ websites. Our study demonstrates how Malaysian private hospitals utilize a number of cognitive structures to present and promote themselves in their “About Us” sections. Our findings are, in general, beneficial for the private hospitals in Malaysia or elsewhere in the world, and in particular, are helpful for novice medical website designers.

Medical Tourism

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-197
Author(s):  
Jeayaram Subramanian ◽  
Hardik Vachharajani
Keyword(s):  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Surgical Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Medical Needs ◽  
The World ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
To Receive

Medical tourism, perhaps a late 20th century phenomenon, is said to be making a huge impact across the world in many countries, especially in developing world. According to the Medical Tourism Association in the United States, the term “medical tourism” is where people who live in one country travel to another country to receive medical, dental, and surgical care while at the same time receiving equal to or greater care that they could have received at their own country. Many people across the globe are taking to the wheels to various destinations for their medical needs owing to critical reasons like affordability, better access to care at a higher level of quality, etc. Medical tourism is a fast-growing Indo-Pacific region too. The chapter starts with a literature review of the industry followed by identifying the global hubs of medical tourism especially in the Indo-pacific region. It concludes with looking at potentials and challenges of medical tourism industry between India and Australia.

Collaborative economy in the tourism industry The new deal for consumers in the European Union

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvana Canales Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Service ◽  
Competitive Prices ◽  
World Tourism Organization ◽  
International Airlines ◽  
Tourism Organization

Europe is the most touristic continent in the world, receiving more than 50% of all international tourists (Santolli, 2017) according to the World Tourism Organization. People from all over the world want to go to the most famous tourist attractions in Europe and what once seemed a distant dream to international tourists due to the high prices of hotels and air tickets, is now possible thanks to the competitive prices of international airlines such as Ryanair, Vueling and EasyJet (O’Connell & Williams , 2005) and the alternative to traditional accommodation providers: collaborative economy platforms such as Airbnb, HomeAway or Wimdu. This short research paper will be focused on this type of platform, which provide mainly hosting services, and the legal aspects of their terms and conditions of service. The collaborative economy in the tourism industry is a growing business model, which allows consumers around the world to rent a spare room, an entire house or an apartment, for a short period of time, at a lower price than the accommodation offered by the traditional service providers such as hotels. However, this phenomenon was not born as a trending idea or an alternative way of getting an extra income, but of the pure necessity of generating cash in a period when the economy was stagnating, and the owners of properties needed to be creative with the available resources. The collaborative economy is characterized by generating economic benefit (Botsman & Rogers , 2010) from assets that would otherwise be given little or no use by their owners or holders. However, the concept of ‘resources’ covers much more than just assets, since resources can refer to spaces, skills and any kind of goods, which, if not made available to the collaborative economy, would be largely unused.

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