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Abubakar, A. M. (2016). Does eWOM influence destination trust and travel intention: A medical tourism perspective. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 29(1), 598-611. https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2016.1189841
Akbulut, Y., Sarp, N. and Ugurluoglu, E. (2007). Reform of the health care system in Turkey: A review of universal health insurance. World Hospitals and Health Services 43(1), 1617-1623. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17621768/
Ali, W. H. (2015). Indicators for sustainable development strategies and components of tourism regions in Egypt a study of Alexandria and the Northwest Coast. International Journal of Environmental Protection and Policy, 3(2), 39-52. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijepp.20150302.13
Alvarez, M. M., Chanda, R. & Smith. R. D. (2011). The potential for bi-lateral agreements in medical tourism: A qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives from the UK and India. Globalization and Health, 7(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-7-11
Amouzagar, S., Mojaradi, Z., Izanloo, A., Beikzadeh, S., & Milani, M. (2016). Qualitative examination of health tourism and its challenges. International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health, 4(3), 88-91. https://doi.org/10.21859/ijtmgh-040304
Asadi, R., & Daryaei, M. (2011). Strategies for development of Iran health tourism. European Journal of Social Sciences, 23(3), 329-344. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/215897808_Strategies_for_Development_of_Iran_Health_Tourism
Aydin, G., & Karamehmet, B. (2017). Factors affecting health tourism and international health-care facility choice. International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing, 11(1), 16-36. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijphm-05-2015-0018
Basala, S., & Klenosky, D. (2001). Travel-style preferences for visiting a novel destination: A conjoint investigation across the novelty-familiarity continuum. Journal of Travel Research, 40(2), 172-182. https://doi.org/10.1177/004728750104000208
Bochaton, A. (2015). Cross-border mobility and social networks: Laotians seeking medical treatment along the Thai border. Social Science & Medicine, 124, 364-373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.022
Bennett, M., King, B., & Milner, L. (2004). The health resort sector in Australia: A positioning study. Journal of Vacation Marketing, 10(2), 122-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/135676670401000203
Bernhart, M. (2007). Adviser interest in medical tourism likely to grow as industry strengthens. Employee Benefit Advisor, 5(10), 54-55.
Brouwer, W., van Exel, J., Hermans, B., & Stoop, A. (2003). Should I stay or should I go? Waiting lists and cross-border care in the Netherlands. Health Policy, 63(3), 289-298. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-8510(02)00120-3
Cameron, K., Crooks, V. A., Chouinard, V., Snyder, J., Johnston, R., & Casey, V. (2014). Motivation, justification, normalization: Talk strategies used by Canadian medical tourists regarding their choices to go abroad for hip and knee surgeries. Social Science & Medicine, 106, 93-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.047
Carabello, L. (2008). A medical tourism primer for U.S. physicians. Medical Practice Management, 23(5), 291-294. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18472606/
Carabello, L. (2013). U.S. domestic medical tourism delivers sustainable tourism for America’s cities and states. Journal of Tourism & Hospitality, 2(2), 114. https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-0269.1000114.
Chambers, D. & McIntosh, B. (2008). Using authenticity to achieve competitive advantage in medical tourism in the English-speaking Caribbean. Third World Quarterly, 29, 919-937. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590802106056
Chuang, T. C., Liu, J. S., Lu, L. Y. Y., & Lee, Y. (2014). The main paths of medical tourism: From transplantation to beautification. Tourism Management, 45, 49-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2014.03.016
Crooks, V. A. & Snyder, J. (2010). Regulating medical tourism. The Lancet, 376(9751), 1465-1466. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61993-9
Cohen, E. (2010). Medical travel-a critical assessment. Tourism Recreation Research, 35(3), 225-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2010.11081639
Connell, J. (2006). Medical tourism: Sea, sun, sand and … surgery. Tourism Management, 27(6), 1093-1100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2005.11.005
Connell, J. (2011). A new inequality? Privatisation, urban bias, migration and medical tourism. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 52(3), 260-271. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8373.2011.01454.x
Connell, J. (2015). From medical tourism to transnational health care? An epilogue for the future. Social Science & Medicine, 124, 398-401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.11.015
Crooks, V. A., Kingsbury, P., Snyder, J., & Johnston, R. (2010). What is known about the patient's experience of medical tourism? A scoping review. BMC Health Services Research, 10, 266. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-266
Crooks, V. A., Cameron, K., Chouinard, V., Johnston, R., Snyder, J., & Casey, V. (2012). Use of medical tourism for hip and knee surgery in osteoarthritis: A qualitative examination of distinctive attitudinal characteristics among Canadian patients. BCM Health Services Research, 12(1), 417. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-417
Crush, J., & Chikanda, A. (2015). South–South medical tourism and the quest for health in Southern Africa. Social Science & Medicine, 124, 313-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.06.025
Cuddehe, M. (2009). Patients without borders: The rise of Mexican Medical Tourism. New Republic, 240(17), 16-17.
Ramirez de Arellano, A. B. (2011). Medical tourism in the Caribbean. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society, 36(2), 289-297. https://doi.org/10.1086/655908
Demicco, F. J. & Cetron, M. (2006). Club medic. Asia Pacific Biotech News, 10(10), 527-531. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219030306000747
Dhariwal, R. (2005). Tourists arrivals in India: how important are domestic disorders? Tourism Economics, 11(2), 185-205. https://doi.org/10.5367/0000000054183522
Dunn, P. (2007). Medical tourism takes flight. Hospitals & Health Networks, 81(11), 40-44.
Dunn, P. (2007). An American in Bangkok. Hospitals & Health Networks, 81(11), 43.
Eissler, L. A., & Casken, J. (2013). Seeking health care through international medical tourism. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 45(2), 177-184. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12014
Elbaz, A. M., Haddoud, M. Y., & Onjewu, A. E. (2019). Grievance handling in Egyptian hotels and travel agencies. Annals of Tourism Research, 76, 214-225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2019.04.012
Fernandez, L. S., Byard, D., Lin, C. C., Benson, S., & Barbera, J. A. (2002). Frail elderly as disaster victims: emergency management strategies. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 17(2), 67-74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X00000200
Fottler, M. D., Malvey, D., Asi, Y., Kirchner, S., & Warren, N. A. (2014). Can inbound and domestic medical tourism improve your bottom line? Identifying the potential of a U.S. tourism market. Journal of Healthcare Management, 59(1), 49-63.
Frederick, J. R., & Gan, L. L. (2015). East–West differences among medical tourism facilitators’ websites. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 4(2), 98–109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdmm.2015.03.002
Fried, B. & Harris, D. (2007). Managing healthcare services in the global marketplace. Frontiers of Health Services Management, 24(2), 3-18.
Gan, L. L., & Frederick, J. R. (2011). Medical tourism in Singapore: A structure-conduct-performance analysis. Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, 12(2), 141-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/10599231.2011.558440
Ganguli, S., & Ebrahim, A. H. (2017). A qualitative analysis of Singapore's medical tourism competitiveness. Tourism Management Perspectives, 21, 74-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2016.12.002
Garcia-Altes, A. (2005). The development of health tourism services. Annals of Tourism Research, 32(1), 262–266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2004.05.007
Ghosh, T., & Mandal, S. (2018). Medical tourism experience: conceptualization, scale development, and validation. Journal of Travel Research, 58(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/0047287518813469
Gitelson, R., & Kerstetter, D. (1994). The influence of friends and relatives in travel decision-making. Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 3(3), 59-68. https://doi.org/10.1300/J073v03n03_04
Glinos, I. A., & Baeten, R. (2014). Dream vs. reality: Seven case-studies on the desirability and feasibility of cross-border hospital collaboration in Europe. Social Science & Medicine, 117, 18-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.015
Goldbach, A. R. and West, D. R. (2010). Medical tourism: A new venture of healthcare. Journal of Global Business Issues, 4(2), 43-44.
Gooding, S. K. S. (1995). The relative importance of information sources in consumers’ choice of hospitals. Journal of Ambulatory Care Marketing, 6(1), 99-108. https://doi.org/10.1300/J273v06n01_07
Goodrich, J. N. & Goodrich, G. E. (1987). Health-care tourism: An exploratory study. Tourism Management, 8(3), 217-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/0261-5177(87)90053-7
Hanefeld, J., Horsfall, D., Lunt, N., & Smith, R. (2013). Medical tourism: A cost or benefit to the NHS? PLoS ONE, 8(10). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070406
Hanefeld, J., Smith, R., Horsfall, D., & Lunt, N. (2014). What do we know about medical tourism? A review of the literature with discussion of its implications for the UK National Health Service as an example of a public health care system. Journal of Travel Medicine, 21(6), 410-417. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtm.12147
Hanefeld, J., Lunt, N., Smith, R., & Horsfall, D. (2015). Why do medical tourists travel to where they do? The role of networks in determining medical travel. Social Science & Medicine, 124, 356-363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.05.016
Helmy, E. (2011). Benchmarking the Egyptian medical tourism sector against international best practices: An exploratory study. Tourismos: An International Multidisciplinary Journal of Tourism, 6(2), 293-311. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268050616_Benchmarking_the_Egyptian_medical_tourism_sector_against_international_best_practices_An_exploratory_study
Henderson, J. (2004). Healthcare tourism in Southeast Asia. Tourism Review International, 7(3-4), 111-121. https://doi.org/10.3727/1544272031437692
Henderson, J. C. (2004). Paradigm shifts: national tourism organizations and education and healthcare tourism. The case of Singapore. Tourism and Hospitality Research, 5(2), 170-180. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.thr.6040016
Ho, K. (2015). Medical tourism: New strategies for the health care industry in Taiwan. Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 114(2), 99-101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfma.2014.09.005
Holliday, R., Cheung, O., Cho, J. H., & Bell, D. (2017). Trading faces: The ‘Korean Look’ and medical nationalism in South Korean cosmetic surgery tourism. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 58(2), 190-202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apv.12154
Hopkins, L., Labonte, R., Runnels, V. & Packer, C. (2010). Medical tourism today: What is the state of existing knowledge? Journal of Public Health Policy, 31(2), 185-198. https://doi.org/10.1057/jphp.2010.10
Horowitz, M. D., & Rosensweig, J. A. (2008). Medical tourism vs. traditional international medical travel: A tale of two models. International Medical Travel Journal. 1-14.
Horowitz, M. D., & Rosensweig, J. A. (2007). Medical tourism -- health care in the global economy. The Physician Executive, 33(6), 24-30. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18092615/
Huan, T. C., Beaman, J., & Shelby, L. (2004). No-escape natural disaster: mitigating impacts on tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 31(2): 255-273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2003.10.003
Hume, L. F., & DeMicco, F. J. (2007). Bringing hotels to healthcare: A Rx for success. Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism, 8(1), 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1300/J162v08n01_04
Iso-Ahola, S. E. (1982). Toward a psychological theory of tourism motivation: A rejoinder. Annals of Tourism Research, 9(2): 256-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/0160-7383(82)90049-4
Jacek, K. (2012). Global medical tourism management: A needed research agenda? Advances in Management, 5(1), 5-7.
Jain, V., & Ajmera, P. (2018). Modelling the factors affecting Indian medical tourism sector using interpretive structural modeling. Benchmarking: An International Journal, 25(5), 1461-1479. https://doi.org/10.1108/bij-03-2017-0045
Johnston, R., Crooks, V. A., Snyder, J. and Kingsbury, P. (2010). What is known about the effects of medical tourism in destination and departure countries? A scoping review. International Journal for Equity in Health, 9, 24. https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-9-24
Johnston, R., Crooks, V. A., Adams, K., Snyder, J. and Kingsbury, P. (2011). An industry perspective on Canadian patients’ involvement in medical tourism: Implications for public health. BMC Public Health, 11, 416. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-416
Junio, M. V., Kim, J. H., & Lee, T. J. (2017). Competitiveness attributes of a medical tourism destination: The case of South Korea with importance-performance analysis. Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 34(4), 444-460. https://doi.org/10.1080/10548408.2016.1182454
Karadayi-Usta, S., & Serdarasan, S. (2020). A conceptual model of medical tourism service supply chain. Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, 13(2), 246-265. https://doi.org/10.3926/jiem.3008
Karuppan, C. M., & Karuppan, M. (2011). Who are the medical travelers and what do they want?: A qualitative study. Health Marketing Quarterly, 28, 116-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/07359683.2011.545339
Karuppan, C. (2014). Employer-based coverage and medical travel options: Lessons for healthcare managers. Journal of Healthcare Management, 59(3), 210-22. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24988676
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Khan, S., & Alam, M. S. (2014). Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A potential destination for medical tourism. Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences, 9(4), 257-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtumed.2014.01.007
Kim, M., Koo, D., Shin, D., & Lee, S. (2017). From servicescape to loyalty in the medical tourism industry: a medical clinic’s service perspective. The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 54, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/0046958017746546
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