Tourism discourse and medical tourists’ motivations to travel

Predicting Expenditure Patterns Based on Motivations to Travel for Active Sport Tourists

Beyond "medical tourism": Canadian companies marketing medical travel

BACKGROUND Despite having access to medically necessary care available through publicly funded provincial health care systems, some Canadians travel for treatment provided at international medical facilities as well as for-profit clinics found in several Canadian provinces. Canadians travel abroad for orthopaedic surgery, bariatric surgery, ophthalmologic surgery, stem cell injections, "Liberat...

Investigating the Impact of Tourists' Travel Distance on the Domestic Tourism Demand in Mashhad

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of the travel distance of tourists on the demand for domestic tourism in Mashhad. Data used in this research was cross-sectional which includes 1388 domestic tourist families who stayed for at least one night in Mashhad City in 2005. The sample was selected using a randomized stratified sampling method and the data was gathered by a...

The Economic of Tourism and Travel Accommodation

Medical Tourism Opportunities: Iran as a Destination Country for Azerbaijani Medical Tourists

The medical tourism industry comprises a combination of tourism and medical services and has attracted the attention of most developed and developing countries during the last decades. This industry has capacities which guarantee progress not only in the economic field, but also in the cultural and political spheres; capacities that can deliver great advantages and opportunities in promoting th...