Image of Poland as perceived by German and British medical tourists

Dryglas, Diana; Lubowiecki-Vikuk, Adrian

doi:10.1108/tr-07-2018-0105

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“…While several empirical papers examined the effects of global health issues on travel intentions (Nazneen et al , 2020; Wen et al , 2020), their results describe the impact of the pandemic on attitudes toward different types of travel without specifying the nature and relative importance of various factors affecting tourists’ perceptions. Most health studies in tourism describe tourists’ visit intentions in medical tourism settings (Collins et al , 2019; Dryglas and Lubowiecki-Vikuk, 2019; Medhekar et al , 2020; Rahman, 2019).…”

Section: The Concept Of Risk Perceptionsmentioning

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Antecedents and outcomes of health risk perceptions in tourism, following the COVID-19 pandemic

2021

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of perceived risks, identify the main antecedents and outcomes of health risk perceptions and propose a conceptual model of health risk perceptions in tourism. Design/methodology/approach This paper provides a review of the literature on customer risk perceptions, along with their antecedents and outcomes, and proposes a conceptual model of health risk perceptions in tourism. Findings Key findings reveal that the main factors of health risk perceptions can be broadly classified into cognitive, affective, individual and contextual components. The proposed conceptual model of health risk perceptions provides a theoretically integrated overview of relationships between all groups of factors, tourists’ risk perceptions and travel intentions. Originality/value The paper contributes to theory by offering a new approach to health risk perceptions in tourism, which remain underexplored in previous studies. The literature review adds to the body of knowledge by introducing four main groups of factors affecting tourists’ health risk perceptions, while the conceptual model proposes relationships between these factors, tourists’ risk perceptions and travel intentions.

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Antecedents and outcomes of health risk perceptions in tourism, following the COVID-19 pandemic

2021

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“…Reynolds (1965) defines that the formation of TDI is the process of mental construction formed by a set of selected impressions from the collection of total impressions. The TDI will be revised and modified by fresh information gained from the actual visiting to the destination (Echtner and Ritchie, 1991; Dryglas and Lubowiecki-Vikuk, 2019). Gunn (1988) identifies seven stages of TDI formation, covering the whole process of visiting destination and TDI has dynamic nature (Bongkoo et al , 2013; Stylidis and Cherifi, 2018; Stylidis, 2019).…”

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Tourism destination image based on tourism user generated content on internet

Wang

Liu

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study tourists’ spatial and psychological involvement reflected through tourism destination image (TDI), TDI is divided into on-site and after-trip groups and the two groups are compared in the frame of three-dimensional continuums. Design/methodology/approach By conducting latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) modeling to tourism user-generated content, structural topic models are established. The topics separated out from unstructured raw texts are structural themes and representations of TDI. Social network analysis (SNA) reveals the quantitative and structural differences of three-dimensional continuums of the two TDI groups. Findings The findings reveal that from the stage of on-site to after-trip, tourist perception of TDI shifts from psychologically to functionally-oriented, from common to unique, and from holistic to more attribute focused. Also, it is suggested that from a postmodernism perspective, TDI is never unique, fixed or universal, but has different image perceptions and feedbacks for different tourists. Research limitations/implications With the assistance of social sensing, a panoramic view of TDI could be established. Targeted and precision destination marketing and image promotion could be applied out to each individual tourist. Originality/value Combining with the perspectives of the tourist-destination space system and the tourism involvement theory, this research proposes a TDI transformation model and an explanation of the internal mechanism. The originality of research also lies in the methodological innovation of social sensing data and the LDA topic model.

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“…As decision-making with regard to medical tourism is indeed a very complex process, the essentiality of how valued attributes of medical tourism translate into intentions to engage in actual behaviours is vibrant (Junio et al , 2017; Connell, 2013). Although the medical tourism industry players are actively using aggressive marketing strategies with vigorous support from the government; nonetheless, the market cannot be achieved through publicity or competitive tools alone (Collins et al , 2019; Dryglas and Lubowiecki-Vikuk, 2019). When the potential medical tourists are not keen or willing to take part in medical tourism, perhaps these efforts are less constructive, and thus they are recommended to consider applying theoretical based study in supporting the observed intervention effect.…”

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Predicting medical tourism behavioural intention using social cognition models

Seow

Choong

Moorthy

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Purpose Few studies have adopted social psychology theories to understand the medical tourism decision-making process. The purpose of this study is to fill the said gap by suggesting the adoption of two social cognition models: the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and protection motivation theory (PMT), to predict medical tourism behavioural intention, as well as compare their predictive power by integrating TBP and PMT in a single model. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative method has been adopted. There were 265 international tourists from various regions who visited Malaysia (one of the main medical tourism players in Asia), who were asked to complete the survey questionnaire. Data was analysed using the partial least squares structural equation modelling technique. Findings The results of this study provided support and validated the well-developed research models of TPB and PMT. Although PMT appears to be a more concrete and specific framework, the TPB model results have a slight advantage. TPB results emphasised the important roles of attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control in developing behavioural intentions, and thus directly linked to the development of pull marketing strategies. PMT results emphasised the important roles of perceived threats and coping appraisal of health care in developing push strategies for medical tourism. Originality/value The research illustrates the need for rigorous examination of the ability of behavioural theories. The findings can aid in scrutinising their shortcomings and their readiness to modify, integrate and enhance in a more constructive manner when they address the health-education interventions, especially in a medical tourism context.

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Image of Poland as perceived by German and British medical tourists

Cited by 18 publications

References 67 publications

Antecedents and outcomes of health risk perceptions in tourism, following the COVID-19 pandemic

Antecedents and outcomes of health risk perceptions in tourism, following the COVID-19 pandemic

Tourism destination image based on tourism user generated content on internet

Predicting medical tourism behavioural intention using social cognition models

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