Stakeholders in the medical trade: The case of South Korea's networks with China and the United States

Cho, Heeran J.; Lee, Timothy Jeonglyeol

doi:10.1002/jtr.2345

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“…Private hospitals work in partnership with all the stakeholders including the government, which provides medical‐visa and other medical tourism incentives to not only promote trade in health‐related services and improve healthcare service quality to attract, retain, and provide positive medical travel/tourism experience to overseas and domestic patients (Cho & Lee, 2019; Medhekar et al, 2020). Further, stakeholders must ensure pro‐poor inclusive and sustainable development of healthcare‐related services by the private sector, through public‐private partnership (PPP) with the government (Medhekar, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

A qualitative analysis of Turkish stakeholders perspective for improving medical tourism

Collins

Medhekar

Sanal

2022

Journal of Tourism Research

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This qualitative study explores from Turkish medical tourism stakeholders' perspective the supply‐side driving factors for improving medical tourism services in Turkey and provides positive healthcare experience to medical travelers. Five groups of stakeholders (27 participants) were interviewed: hospitals/medical centers, medical travel‐agencies, medical‐legal regulators, government, and non‐government organizations. Findings show that Turkey has a dual‐sector public and private model of medical tourism service providers. Four interrelated themes with policy implications were generated: medical tourism promotion, logistics and development initiatives, medical cost, hospital quality accreditation, and other issues related to medical‐legal, government incentives for Turkish diaspora, and promoting Turkish medical tourism overseas.

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Section: Literature Review and Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

A qualitative analysis of Turkish stakeholders perspective for improving medical tourism

Collins

Medhekar

Sanal

2022

Journal of Tourism Research

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“…In terms of health tourism development forms, previous studies mainly involve hot spring tourism (Mak et al , 2009), forest tourism (Ohe et al , 2017), sport tourism (Hinch and Higham, 2001), geriatric tourism (Tsartsara, 2018) and medical tourism (Lee et al , 2020), particularly traditional Chinese medical tourism (Islam, 2014). Cho and Lee (2020) analyzed the stakeholder network in the medical tourism industry centered on South Korea and compared the networks in China and the USA. Farkic et al (2021) pointed out that Shinrin-yoku or forest bathing in Japan has become a new wellness trend.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health tourism in China: a 40-year bibliometric analysis

Zhong

Sun

Law³

et al. 2022

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to systematically analyze the evolution of health tourism development, identify relevant themes and segments of health tourism research and offer future research directions and practical implications for academic researchers and tourism practitioners worldwide using China as an example. Design/methodology/approach Using a bibliometric analysis, the present study comprehensively analyzes the theme, segments and the evolution of health tourism research over the past 40 years in China. Findings Major findings show that health tourism research in China could be divided into four stages with different characteristics, and three segments, including wellness tourism, health and wellness tourism and medical tourism. Findings also reveal the trend of health tourism development tends to be industrialized, diversified and systematic under the guidance of recent policies. Theoretically, based on the theoretical framework developed by Hall (2011), the present study contributes to the establishment and extension of the framework for health tourism within the context of China. Practically, findings can provide health tourism-related policy implications for the future development of health or health sector-integrated tourism. Research limitations/implications The study proposes possible collaboration between government and academia in terms of health tourism-related policy formulation. Originality/value Through 40-year bibliometric analysis of health tourism evolution in China, the present study explores the main themes of health tourism development, identifies the segments of health tourism and analyzes the development stages of health tourism. Findings should be of use to international readers to better understand the uniqueness of health tourism development and find out possible future health tourism development research directions. As a result, major contributions of this paper are the comprehensive analysis of the evolution of health tourism research and the implications on other countries and regions to adopt a pragmatic approach to explore the trend and unique characteristics of health tourism for future development.

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“…Furthermore, Skountridaki [57] suggests that improved communication and cooperation between medical professionals and medical travel facilitators are required. Other studies confirm that lack of collaboration and networking among medical tourism suppliers and medical tourism facilitators is one of the key issues in medical tourism development [29,31,32,43,[58][59][60][61][62][63]. Frederick and Gan [64] identified differences between Western and Eastern medical tourism facilitators.…”

Section: Medical Tourism Facilitators and Marketingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Barriers to Medical Tourism Development in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Bulatović

Iankova

2021

IJERPH

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Medical tourism is a thriving industry. Many destinations now seek to attract more medical tourists. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is no exception. As one of the most important pillars of the UAE’s economy, tourism is considered a high priority. However, medical tourism in the UAE is still developing. This paper addresses the main challenges for medical tourism in the UAE and proposes methods to enhance its development. This research utilized qualitative analysis. Twelve professionals in medical tourism were interviewed to provide data. The data were then analyzed using NVivo 12 software. Our results indicate that the key barriers to medical tourism development in the UAE are high costs of medical tourism services, lack of marketing activities, lack of collaboration between medical and tourism service providers, and so forth. Although initiatives from the UAE government are very encouraging, more efficient medical care supply networks, tourism suppliers and intermediaries should be established to ensure its growth. This research could influence national tourism policies in the UAE as well as regional alliances in all Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries.

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Stakeholders in the medical trade: The case of South Korea's networks with China and the United States

Cited by 12 publications

References 37 publications

A qualitative analysis of Turkish stakeholders perspective for improving medical tourism

A qualitative analysis of Turkish stakeholders perspective for improving medical tourism

Health tourism in China: a 40-year bibliometric analysis

Barriers to Medical Tourism Development in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

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