The main paths of medical tourism: From transplantation to beautification |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Information Science and Technology, Vanung University, 1, Vanung Rd., Zhongli, Taoyuan 32061, Taiwan;2. Graduate Institute of Technology Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 43, Sec. 4, Keelung Rd., Taipei 10607, Taiwan;3. College of Management, Yuan-Ze University, 135 Yuan-Tung Road, Chung-Li 32003, Taiwan;1. School of Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China;2. College of Management, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan 32003, Taiwan;3. Innovation Center for Big Data and Digital Convergence, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan 32003, Taiwan;4. Graduate Institute of Technology Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10607, Taiwan;1. Ph.D Student, School of Social Sciences, University of Peloponnese, Corinth, Greece;2. Assistant Professor, Tourism Department, TEI of Athens, Aigaleo, Greece;3. Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, University of Peloponnese, Corinth, Greece;1. Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada;2. University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa;1. Nephrology and Hemodialysis Department, Clinical Center of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro;2. Department of Nephrology, Dialysis, Hypertension, and Transplantation, Clinical Hospital Center, Zagreb; School of Medicine, University of Zagreb; and School of Medicine, University of Osijek, Croatia;3. Urology Department, Clinical Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia;4. Urology Department, Clinical Center of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro;1. The Renal Medicine Department, Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman;2. Department of Pathology, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman;3. Infectious Disease Department, Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman |
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| Abstract: | Medical tourism, combining the very polarized purposes of pleasurable travel and potentially stressful health care services, is an emergent and growing business worldwide. Medical tourism patients are willing to travel abroad to seek better quality, lower cost, domestically unavailable, no wait-time destinations for non-emergency medical care. There are numerous related studies in the academic literature that are substantiated with multidisciplinary and diverse backgrounds. This study uses the main path analysis, a unique quantitative and citation-based approach, to analyze the significant development trajectories, important literature, and recent active research areas in medical tourism. We find that there are two distinctive development paths: one path focuses more on the evolution of medical tourism, the motivation factors, marketing strategies, and economic analysis; the other path emphasizes organ transplant and related issues. These two paths eventually merge to a common node in the citation network, which foretells transplantation to beautification as the future research direction trend. |
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| Keywords: | Medical tourism Cosmetic tourism Transplant tourism Main path analysis Literature review |
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