In this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing Ronald Andersen's behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the recent empirical study of Kovacs et al. on patients travelling to Hungary for orthopedic treatment. Finally, we plead for more measurement in the field of patient ...

Medical tourism in Ireland, like in many Western states, is built around assumptions about individual agency, choice, possibility, and mobility. One specific form of medical tourism—the flow of women from Ireland traveling in order to secure an abortion—disrupts and contradicts these assumptions. One legacy of the bitter, contentious political and legal battles surrounding abortion in Ireland i...

Th is paper analyses residents’ perceptions toward cruise tourism development and its externalities. Th e research involved a primary data collection in Messina, during the summer peak of the cruise season in 2011. A correspondence analysis on the local residents’ perceptions shows that residents have an overall positive attitude towards cruise tourism development with respect to social, cultur...

High quality product data is a necessary prerequisite for supporting efficient browsing and recommendation procedures on e-commerce platforms. This is especially true for the tourism domain where an abundance of information can easily overwhelm users. Although classification data such as to which category (e.g. accommodation, restaurant or sight) a tourism product belongs is usually directly av...

251 Address correspondence to Carmen Martins, School of Tourism, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Dorset House, Room D241, Fern Barrow, Bournemouth, Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1202 965046; E-mail: [email protected] 2002). On the other side, travelers, who become much more exigent (Buhalis & Law, 2008), are in constant need of information and they are faced with the ...

The Internet is rapidly evolving as a new tool for conducting tourism research. Given known advantages, steps to examine the possible drawbacks need to be taken to verify Internet survey methods. This article focuses, in particular, on coverage error of self-selected e-samples. Based on the response to a question regarding willingness to provide contact information on the Internet, the responde...

The tourism footprint family comprises the tourism ecological footprint (TEF), the tourism carbon footprint (TCF) and the tourism water footprint (TWF). The tourism footprint represents an important tool for quantitatively assessing the impact of tourism activities on the ecosystem of a tourist destination. This paper systematically reviews the relevant literature on TEF, TCF and TWF, analyses ...

Abstract. This paper introduces a method for giving recommendations of tourist activities to a group of users. This method makes recommendations based on the group tastes, their demographic classification and the places visited by the users in former trips. The group recommendation is computed from individual personal recommendations through the use of techniques such as aggregation, intersecti...

This paper aimed first to benchmark wine tourism websites in Spain and Australia, using the eMICA model, evaluating the extent of their Internet commerce adoption and second to test the robustness of the approach. The model served as a valuable tool to benchmark wine tourism websites in Spain and Australia in terms of the highest stage and level reached, both in a short time series and in a cro...

Following the identification of medical tourism as a growth sector by the Malaysian government in 1998, significant government sector and private-sector investments have been channeled into its development over the past 15 years. This is unfolding within the broader context of social services being devolved to for-profit enterprises and 'market-capable' segments of society becoming sites of int...