Medical Tourism in Iran: Analysis of Opportunities and Challenges with MADM Approach

Tourani, Sogand; Tabibi, Seyed Jamaledin; Tofighi, S.; Zadeh, Nasrin Shaarbafchi

doi:10.3923/rjbsci.2010.251.257

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“…The less is this variable for a criterion, the higher is its rank according to the VIKOR method. Table 7 contains the final ranking of the proposed strategies obtained by the VIKOR method [42][43][44][45][46][47].…”

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A Strategic Approach to Tourism Development Barriers in Iran

Raad¹

2019

J Tourism Hospit

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This research aims to have a strategic approach to the barriers that have hampered the development of the tourism industry in Iran. This study shows the application of MADM and strategic management tools in national tourism policy-making. In this research, PESTEL analysis is used to identify and classify the barriers that hamper tourism development in Iran. Then the Friedman test is carried out to rank the barriers. Then, the DEMATEL technique is used to determine cause and effect relationships between different types of barriers. After that, Importance-Performance analysis is done to identify the barriers that are the first priority of the country and need immediate attention. Finally, a set of strategies are proposed, evaluated, and ranked by CRITIC and VIKOR methods. This study identifies the most important issues and barriers to tourism development in Iran and proposes the most effective strategies to overcome those barriers. As the current tourism development strategies in Iran are proved to be ineffective and the situation of Iran in the international tourism industry is not comparable with the high potentials of this country, a strategic approach to tourism development barriers is absolutely necessary and valuable.

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Section: Strategy Prioritizationmentioning

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A Strategic Approach to Tourism Development Barriers in Iran

Raad¹

2019

J Tourism Hospit

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“…The lack of comprehensive planning systems for health tourism has led to focus on understanding the various aspect of this process in the relevant studies, moreover providing practical solutions and suggestions in terms of planning and strategies for medical and health tourism (Shalbafian 2006, Bakhtiari 2005. Identifying potentials, challenges and obstacles for the development of this industry in Iran are argued in various research and considers a methodology for analyzing Iran's health tourism resources, which has led to the introduction of various cities for constructing a site, known as wellness tourism center such as Shiraz in Fars province, Isfahan in Isfahan province and Sareyn in Ardabil province (Nadim and Gandomkar 2016, Rokni et al 2013, Tourani et al 2010. Determining the executable and effective parameters for appealing medical tourism have illustrated the massive potential of health tourism in Iran in the region to become a pole in the future.…”

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“…In addition, the lack of a treatment visa and, consequently, the inability to use medical insurance, social challenges such as lack of public knowledge as tourist attractions as for tourism and national tourism attractions, enough comfort, health, and medical facilities, effective sanitary systems, political problems (US sanctions on Iran, Iran's policy in the region and with Western countries) are ahead of the tourism industry in this region. Therefore, it can be said that Lack of infrastructural institutes for provision and improvement of quality and standard of the services, creation a dual market structure in health services, non-portability of health insurances and lack of private sector by the government are highlighted as the most important challenges which Iran health tourism faced by (Heng Leng 2007) and (Tourani et al 2010). A SWOT analysis can make clear the potential and challenges of health tourism in the Pasargadae region (see Table 2).…”

Section: The Main Challenges Of Health Tourism In Pasargadaementioning

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Mission ATINER is a World Non-Profit Association of Academics and Researchers based in Athens. ATINER is an independent Association with a Mission to become a forum where Academics and Researchers from all over the world can meet in Athens, exchange ideas on their research and discuss future developments in their disciplines, as well as engage with professionals from other fields. Athens was chosen because of its long history of academic gatherings, which go back thousands of years to Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. Both these historic places are within walking distance from ATINER"s downtown offices. Since antiquity, Athens was an open city. In the words of Pericles, Athens"…is open to the world, we never expel a foreigner from learning or seeing". ("Pericles" Funeral Oration", in Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War). It is ATINER"s mission to revive the glory of Ancient Athens by inviting the World Academic Community to the city, to learn from each other in an environment of freedom and respect for other people"s opinions and beliefs. After all, the free expression of one"s opinion formed the basis for the development of democracy, and Athens was its cradle. As it turned out, the Golden Age of Athens was in fact, the Golden Age of the Western Civilization. Education and (Re)searching for the "truth" are the pillars of any free (democratic) society. This is the reason why Education and Research are the two core words in ATINER"s name.

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“…Iran government supplies 30% of the medical needs of the country based on its new planning at the end of the fifth development plan by exporting goods, medical services and medical tourism. With this development of medical tourism, there will be various benefits such as employment and quality growth in medical and economic sectors and inflow of foreign exchange especially in tourism industry [16,17].…”

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Iran’s Medical Tourism Development Model in Cardiac Surgery

Noori

Kargari

2016

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Introduction: Since medical tourism is considered as an incremental activity in this sector and proper infrastructures in country to make medical tourism are lacking, announcement by authorities to provide perquisites of medical tourism to make the first clinic hotel and health town are necessary for the purpose of developing medical tourism in Iran, all of these side issues should be investigated. Methods: Cardiovascular diseases are very common because of pollution and industrial development. In this research, by extracting related studies on medical tourism and its localization, using hospitals data bank and questionnaire of 640 medical tourists, only 528 of them were approved and finally by using IBM SPSS modular 14.1 software decision tree in data algorithm, efficiency and purity level were obtained. The method for data preprocess step is utilized to extract the best model. Two preprocess steps are deleting useless and correlated features, because data should be prepared until model has the least error. Results: Among the examined algorithm including C&RT, CHAID and Multiple Linear Regression, it was shown that C&RT has the optimal results. The results obtained from this research indicate that C&RT binary decision tree has the smallest error value (0.078) and the greatest accuracy value (0.922). Conclusion: In this research, first effective factors on heart medical tourism were investigated with the help of experts in this field, then C&RT and CHASID models using Clementine software and multiple linear regression variables were compared and ranked. With respect to this algorithm, personnel behavior, social security and communication variables are respectively the most important factors for medical tourist attraction.

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Medical Tourism in Iran: Analysis of Opportunities and Challenges with MADM Approach

Cited by 15 publications

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A Strategic Approach to Tourism Development Barriers in Iran

A Strategic Approach to Tourism Development Barriers in Iran

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