The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced or even temporarily halted tourism worldwide. The lack of tourists has huge consequences not only for the tourism industry, but also for the tourism economy. Health tourism enterprises are also affected by this problem, but their situation is somewhat different...

The Europe 2020 strategy mapped out the direction for the achievement of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and development. The purpose of the paper is confirmation of the hypothesis that health tourism, in all its complexity, interdiciplinarity and systematic approach to problems, is an...

The role of Medical Tourism in the process of a complex satisfaction of the prosumers and the impact played in the organizational and functional changes in the Polish healthcare system. The analysis of the literature on the subject as well as an analysis of the documentation were the inspiration...

This paper argues that any compatible strategy for the development of medical tourism at a developing nation should be based primarily on a comprehensive benchmarking study. It has employed the benchmarking phase of a national project for the development of an Egyptian medical tourism strategy...

The paper attempts to analyze the role of public policy adjustments in facilitating the medical tourism sector in Asian countries in response to recent global economic events. While falling incomes may encourage prospective clients in developed countries to opt for medical services in Asia,...

This paper studies the nature of differentiation in the market for medical tourism facilitators in the United States. Medical tourism facilitators in the United States resemble a monopolistically competitive industry. They choose to differentiate their services in several ways, including by the...

This paper identified demographic groups who are likely to participate in medical tourism and further identified three components (economic, treatment-related, travel-related) that explain their motivation to travel for treatment. We hypothesized that differences in consumer characteristics and...

Medical tourism is an industry that has been experiencing continuous growth in recent years. It is an area of interest not only for the host countries (the suppliers), but also for countries with high medical costs (the consumers), which are typically industrialized countries. There is a need to...