Push factors, risks, and types of visit intentions of international medical travelers – A conceptual model

Khan, Mohammad Jamal; Chelliah, Shankar; Haron, Mahmod Sabri; Ahmed, Sahrish

doi:10.1080/20479700.2017.1304345

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“…A study conducted on apparel products revealed that perceived financial, product and time risk negatively influence online purchase intention [113]. In tourism, a traveler encounters various types of risk, including financial, physical, health and psychological risk, which are the result of political instability, health epidemics, terrorism, or natural disasters in the destination country [99,114,115]. Table 1.…”

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Risk Perceptions of Airbnb Hosts: Evidence from a Mediterranean Island

2018

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In the context of the sharing economy, Airbnb has become a formidable mode of accommodation in the tourism industry worldwide, with a presence in over 34,000 cities in 191 countries. However, the risks associated with online bookings are significant dimensions of this e-market domain. This study assesses Airbnb hosts' perceived risks and investigates the effects of service, financial, safety and security, psychological and political risks on the host's satisfaction and intention to continue and recommend this business to potential hosts. A survey was administered to 221 Airbnb hosts located in Northern Cyprus. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the proposed conceptual model. The results revealed that host satisfaction is negatively influenced by financial and safety and security risks; continuance intention is negatively affected by financial, safety and security, and political risks; intention to recommend this business is negatively affected by political risk; and psychological risk increases satisfaction and intention to continue and recommend. By highlighting the theoretical and managerial implications, this study informs Airbnb management of the potential risks associated with this peer-to-peer (P2P) business in order to minimize the associated risks, enhance host satisfaction and the quality of their services, and encourage hosts to recommend Airbnb to their peers.

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Section: Components Of Perceived Riskmentioning

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Risk Perceptions of Airbnb Hosts: Evidence from a Mediterranean Island

2018

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“…Jonas et al ( 2011 ) identified tourist health risk as an inseparable part of traveling which has endangering impact on the safety and security of the tourists that enhances their hesitation to travel. On the top, risk perception regarding health has become an important consideration for tourists due to the growing trend of developing a sense of safety among tourists facilitated by the increased availability of information, and these risk perceptions would have an impact on travel hesitation toward decisions of tourists (Cahyanto et al, 2016 ; Jonas et al, 2011 ; Khan et al, 2017a , 2017b ; Page, 2009 ).…”

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“…Tourist knowledge is borrowed from consumer's product knowledge and is a central building block in understanding consumer habits such as information quest (Wijesinghe et al, 2019) and information processing (Kärle et al, 2018;Khan et al, 2017aKhan et al, , 2017bKogo et al, 2020;Rezaei & Maihami, 2019). Delbridge and Bernard, (1998) defined Knowledge as the whole of facts and values gathered by mankind about a specific area.…”

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“…Wong and Yeh ( 2009 ) investigated the relationship of tourist hesitation with destination decision-making and found evidence of tourists’ perceived risk positively influencing the tourist hesitation. There is still great scope for investigating the dynamics of tourist hesitation from different perspectives (Afshar Jahanshahi et al, 2020a , 2020b ; Hasan et al, 2017 ; Islam et al, 2020 ; Khan et al, 2017a , 2017b ; Park et al, 2019 ). Therefore, it is crucial to find the behavioral issues that demotivate or drive people to hesitate to travel because if tourist hesitation is not properly addressed, it will lead to a lower number of travelers.…”

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How does tourist perception lead to tourist hesitation? Empirical evidence from Bangladesh

Polas

Saha

Tabash

2021

Environ Dev Sustain

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The paper aims to identify the factors that cause prospective tourists’ hesitation to travel. The study also examines whether this relationship is mediated by the tourist perception in Bangladesh. The study is of quantitative design, and the relationships between tourist knowledge, tourist health risk, and destination personality with tourist hesitation were explored using a sample of 322 Bangladeshi prospective tourists. The three relationships were also examined through tourist perception. By using cross-sectional data, the researchers hypothesized that tourist knowledge, tourist health risk, and destination personality have a positive and significant effect on tourist hesitation. Besides, the researchers also hypothesized that tourist perception mediates the relationships between tourist knowledge, tourist health risk, and destination personality with tourist hesitation. In this respect, the Smart PLS 3.0 was employed to analyze the data. The results of the study confirm findings of previous related studies by not only highlighting the importance of tourist perception in shaping tourist hesitation but also indicating the way each dimension of tourism either enhances or inhibits the tourist hesitation. The results of the study also reveal a positive and significant relationship between tourist knowledge and tourist health risk with tourist hesitation. The analysis of data showed no conventional relationship between destination personality and tourist hesitation. Accordingly, this study identified the extent to which tourist perception mediates the relationship between tourist knowledge and destination personality with tourist hesitation. Meanwhile, the results of the study indicate the absence of any mediation role of tourist perception between tourist health risk and tourist hesitation. The study outcomes would encourage the government, policymakers, and tourism managements in creating a tailor-made responsiveness program by building a scenario that could offer more prominent sustainable tourism establishments. Besides, the results may assist stakeholders of tourist destinations in understanding tourist perception and the causes of tourist’s hesitation.

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“…Many researchers disagree with using the term "medical tourism" for a journey performed solely in search of medical treatment, as the term otherwise mainly defines the phenomenon of north-to-south travel where receiving health and medical care was combined with leisurely activities. Researchers argue that the majority of individuals traveling outside the country for treatment are needy patients who have the sole motivation to receive the required treatment [3,4].…”

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Perceived Risks, Travel Constraints, and Destination Perception: A Study on Sub-Saharan African Medical Travellers

Khan

Amin

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In medical travel, previous studies have investigated the factors that influence medical travellers to receive treatment outside the country. However, most of these studies are limited to travel motivations and perceptions of medical services at destinations. The main objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between medical travellers’ perceived risks, travel constraints, and destination image based on medical and non-medical attributes. This is a quantitative study whereby the data was collected from 306 sub-Saharan African medical travellers, who visited India for the treatment. The study found that physical-health risk has a significant negative influence on destination image based on medical attributes. The service quality risk has a negative effect on destination image based on both medical and non-medical attributes, and destination risk has a negative effect on destination image based on medical attributes. The study also found that travel constraints have a negative influence on both medical and non-medical destination image.

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Push factors, risks, and types of visit intentions of international medical travelers – A conceptual model

Cited by 25 publications

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Risk Perceptions of Airbnb Hosts: Evidence from a Mediterranean Island

Risk Perceptions of Airbnb Hosts: Evidence from a Mediterranean Island

How does tourist perception lead to tourist hesitation? Empirical evidence from Bangladesh

Perceived Risks, Travel Constraints, and Destination Perception: A Study on Sub-Saharan African Medical Travellers

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