Health tourism in Hungary holds major opportunities. When analysing medical and wellness accommodation data, it can be stated that the Hungarian population is keenly interested in health-related tourism services. From the aspect of further development, health tourism based on medical services...

The research investigates if consumers' expectations of the service quality of foreign healthcare facilities vary depending on their income level. The results show that there are significant differences in medical tourism service quality expectations between different income groups for all five...

The basic objective of this study is to handle the health tourism, which is developing rapidly and began to hold an important place in world tourism pie, so that in the World economy, conceptually, after reviewing the development of health tourism in the world and in Turkey, by means of...

В статье рассматриваются современное состояние и перспективы развития оздоровительного и медицинского туризма в мире и в России, особенности курортов России.

Over the past few decades medical tourism has developed a strong international presence. Increasingly more people are turning to this type of tourism and there are already different specialized tourism companies that offer packages according to the needs of patients/tourists. In this context,...

Governments are increasingly establishing health regions to deal with current challenges of public health service. These regions are seen as instruments to balance public and private stakeholders, and offer health care to regional citizens as well as to medical/health tourists. However, it is...

The study assesses the presence and magnitude of global trends in health tourism using health-related travel (HRT) spending reported in the International Monetary Fund’s Balance of Payments Statistics database. Linear regression and quantile regression are applied to estimate secular trends of...

This paper tries to clarify the concept of social tourism by definition, features, forms of manifestation and materialization, as the concept of social tourism was not very clear for many people, being confused with mass tourism, popular tourism, tourism for people with disabilities etc.. The...

Despite the increasing debate in literature on both tourism clusters and medical tourism, the role played by the government in medical tourism clusters remains vastly unexplored. The aim of the present paper is to explore government initiatives in clusters where the medical and tourism...

To evaluate the effect of the JCI quality document on the potential of patients coming from abroad in these cope of health tourism from the point of view of administratorsImportance: Studies examining the effects of JCI on health tourism are limited, the geographical position of our country is...