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With the deepening integration of culture and tourism, problems are increasing prominent due to consumption upgrade tourism industry. Some stock scenic spots that have been in operation for years also need be transformed upgraded mode, they shall understand how get rid tickets only, implement diversified operation, promote increase income. In this paper, authors proposed theme-business-experien...

SUMMARY Developing countries have been attracting more international patients by building state-of-the-art facilities and offering sought-after healthcare services at a fraction of the cost of the US healthcare system. These price differentials matter most for elective procedures, including cosmetic surgeries, which are paid for out of pocket. It is unclear how this rise in medical tourism will...

This paper examines the grid of sentiment that structures medical travel to India. In contrast to studies that render emotion as ancillary, the paper argues that affect is fundamental to medical travel's ability to ease the linked somatic, emotional, financial, and political injuries of being ill 'back home'. The ethnographic approach follows the scenes of medical travel within the Indian corpo...

and New Zealand (3–5,7). We were unable to confi rm the original source of these isolates, and continuous surveillance for carbapenemase producers in our hospital has not uncovered any blaOXA-181–positive isolates since 1996. To our knowledge, there are no reports of blaOXA-181– positive isolates in Bangladesh. However, this country borders India, which is a source of blaOXA-181–positive Entero...

This is the sixth Working Paper from a project designed to consider the impacts of e-business on the Australian transport system together with any constraints that the transport system might place on e-commerce opportunities. E-business impacts on the transport system in any area of the nation, or indeed the world, will vary with the industry mix in the area, the existing transport infrastructu...

The Blackstone Valley Tourism Council (BVTC), a state designated council to promote tourism in the Blackstone Valley, Rhode Island, has led tourism development efforts for two decades to revitalize the economics and livability of place. This study examines the perception of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in juxtaposition to the macro-regional level of tourism development as lead by the BVT...

■ Abstract Tourism is relevant to many theoretical and real-world issues in anthropology. The major themes anthropologists have covered in the study of tourism may be divided conceptually into two halves: One half seeks to understand the origins of tourism, and the other reveals tourism’s impacts. Even when taken together, these two approaches seem to produce only a partial analysis of tourism....

Karel Charvat [email protected] Rural tourism starts to play important role in the whole agribusiness and rural development. In many remote areas, it starts to be the main economic activity. The development of such kind of activities is now supported as an opportunity for sustainable development of rural areas. Rural tourism is a chance, how to give farmers a new opportunity for profit from the tour...

Medical tourism is a relatively new segment that has spurred the attention of major health care leaders across globe over decade. The global medical market shown extensive growth whereby generated USD11.56 billion in 2020 which increased to USD13. 98 2021. amount projected grow USD53.51 2028. In Asia region, few countries are playing their roles as destinations such Thailand and Singapore. Howe...