Background:The purpose of this paper is to help consolidate and understand management perceptions and experiences of a targeted group (n=7) of Vice-Presidents of international Private Thai hospitals in Bangkok regarding medical tourism impacts.Methods:The method adopted uses a small-scale qualitative inquiry. Examines the on-going development and service management factors which contribute to the establishment and strengthening of relationships between international patients and hospital medical services provision. Develops a qualitative model that attempts to conceptualise the findings from a diverse range of management views into a framework of main (8) - Hospital Management; Hospital Processes; Hospital Technology; Quality Related; Communications; Personnel; Financial; and Patients; and consequent sub-themes (22).Results:Outcomes from small-scale qualitative inquiries cannot by design be taken outside of its topical arena. This inevitably indicates that more research of this kind needs to be carried out to understand this field more effectively. The evidence suggests that Private Thai hospital management have established views about what constitutes the impact of medical tourism on hospital policies and practices when hospital staff interact with international patients.Conclusions:As the private health service sector in Thailand continues to grow, future research is needed to help hospitals provide appropriate service patterns and appropriate medical products/services that meet international patient needs and aspirations. Highlights the increasing importance of the international consumer in Thailand’s health industry. This study provides insights of private health service providers in Bangkok by helping to understand more effectively health service quality environments, subsequent service provision, and the integrated development and impacts of new medical technology.

Higher education appears to be changing in the Thailand, as students, especially younger students whose social networking concerns match their obsession with mobile technology, may take issue with past academic teaching patterns and practices and opt for more contemporary approaches such as mobile-learning (m-Learning).This research used a qualitative approach and conducted a focus group of students (N=15) drawn from a target population of 256 using a simple random sampling process exploring their recent experiences of m-Learning at a small HE institution in Thailand.The major results yield a mixed response in terms of student readiness for m-Learning technology demands. The analysis would appear to suggest that there are crucial technological constraints that have to be overcome relating to mobile devices, the media used and the effects of the delivery mechanism; and that these technological constraints have a considerable impact on student's pedagogic engagement.Future research implications and issues surrounding the development of mobile-Learning in Thailand higher education are also discussed.

This paper explores the managerial challenges and viewpoints relating to the management of a metro design in KSA, raised by a group of design engineering staff. The paper examines the scope, reflections, and attitudes to the project management and which appear to contribute to the efficacy of the design outcomes between a single group of engineering personnel of thirteen (13) design engineers for a metro development in KSA. The paper advances a conceptualisation from the findings of a diverse range of qualitative personnel opinion into an integrated framework.Outcomes from this inquiry suggests that the project management show clear issues with the management style adopted to manage this group and explores the derived themes of namely four (4) main themes, namely Management; Project, People; and Technology.The outcomes shows opinion that the project management are not effectively managing the project corresponding with raised issues of cost/schedule overruns, delays to the project through poor coordination, ineffective leadership of the projects activities, and inadequate project preparation and its managerial execution. The paper further suggests how some of the effects of these identified issues may be reduced or mitigated.

This paper explores the personal financial viewpoints on the project management of a metro in KSA and more particularly focuses on the financial issues raised by a group of design engineering staff. The paper examines the scope, reflections, attitudes to the project management in their management and unpredictable way of the development and application of the company's financial policy to personnel. The paper examines the personal financial factors, which contribute to the establishment and strengthening of work interactions between a single group of engineering personnel of twelve (12) small, client interacting working design facility for a metro development in KSA. The paper develops a model that attempts to conceptualise the findings from a diverse range of qualitative personnel opinion into an engaged framework. Outcomes from this inquiry suggests that the project managers show clear failings in attitude to its staff and that individual opinion regarding personal finances may be a logical factor in the development of very real negative corporate judgments in this group and explores the derived themes of namely eight (8) main themes, namely Payment Issue; Trust Issues; Work Issues; Job Related; Managerial Related; Socially Related; Cost Issues; and Job Issues. The outcomes shows clearly that the project management are not effectively managing the project as raised issues of staff financial slavery, project complexity problems, unviable cost overruns, delays to the project schedule through poor coordination, ineffective programme management of the projects activities, improper project preparation and managerial execution affect how the client trustworthiness may be stretched. The paper further suggests how these identified issues may be mitigated through the appropriate application of project management theory.

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