The journey from an allopathic to natural treatment approach: A scoping review of medical tourism and health systems

Online Tourism Information and Tourist Behavior: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis Based on a Self-Administered Survey

“…The tourism industry encapsulates many service industries in its breadth and depth, such as food and beverages, travel, and hospitality, with a variety of niches, e.g., wellness tourism, medical tourism, spa tourism, etc. (Majeed and Lu, 2017;Majeed et al, 2017a). The tourism industry is experiencing a boom in its service operations due to tourists' demands for their overall health and well-being (Sabiote-Ortiz et al, 2016;Majeed et al, 2017aMajeed et al, , 2018Majeed et al, , 2019aAydin, 2019).…”

“…(Majeed and Lu, 2017;Majeed et al, 2017a). The tourism industry is experiencing a boom in its service operations due to tourists' demands for their overall health and well-being (Sabiote-Ortiz et al, 2016;Majeed et al, 2017aMajeed et al, , 2018Majeed et al, , 2019aAydin, 2019). In this rapidly evolving era of tourism, the internet, and ICT, destinations are more easily explored than before.…”

Health Resorts and Multi-Textured Perceptions of International Health Tourists

“…Tourism has been changing its nature rapidly in recent years due to the amalgamation of the health and medical industries in tandem with tourists' complex quests for rest, relaxation, leisure, fun, and sustainable tourism attractions in order to find overall improvement in their quality of life [1,2]. It is noted that many individuals are moving across national borders to find their optimal health status [3][4][5].…”

“…More precisely, medical tourism involves two different segments, that is, medicine and tourism, which have been deeply interlinked as of late [6,8]. However, these segments fall into a broader sense of health and maintenance, because individuals travel offshore in order to seek different diagnostic treatments, surgeries, dental care, cosmetic reasons, and lifestyle enhancement treatments/therapies, as well as holiday and vacation in therapeutic places [2]. Despite medical interventions while traveling abroad, it is noted that medical tourists travel across the world in order to find better quality of life, and hence, medical tourism is often encapsulated into notions of health tourism as well [9].…”

“…Reddy et al [10] further fueled the interlinked phenomenon of medical and health tourism, and noted it in terms of health and wellness tourism by narrating that medical tourists travel abroad for different health and wellness treatments, which may include alternative therapies, such as for example, spa, in health and wellness centers in tandem with experiencing tourism. Hence, health tourism is a broader umbrella term in order to include different conceptualizations of medical, health, wellness, and tourism [1,2]. It is noted that health and medical tourism have pervasively contributed to developing positive economic indicators for the participating destinations in health and medical tourism [11][12][13].…”