Why medical tourists choose Turkey as a medical tourism destination?

Sag I., Zengul F. D.

JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM INSIGHTS, vol.2, no.3, pp.296-306, 2019 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 2 Issue: 3
  • Publication Date: 2019
  • Doi Number: 10.1108/jhti-05-2018-0031
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM INSIGHTS
  • Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.296-306
  • Keywords: Competition, Destination choose, Healthcare and medical tourism, HEALTH-CARE, FUTURE, TRAVEL
  • Anadolu University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to determine the relationships between the health tourists' perceptions on decisive factors (i.e. experience, technological infrastructure, flight distance, legal and moral restrictions, touristic attractions, religious similarity, waiting time and price of health tourism) and Turkey as their choice of healthcare tourism destination.