Investigating the Role of Institutional Quality on Development of Medical Tourism Industry in Iran: System Dynamics Approach

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economic, Management and Business, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

2 Professor of University of Tabriz, Faculty of Economics, Management and Business, Tabriz, Iran.

3 Professor of Economics, faculty of Economic, Management and Business, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

4 Faculty of Economics, Management and Business, Department of Economics, Tabriz, Iran

References

Ackoff, R. (2004). Interactive Planning, Sohrab Khalili Translation, Tehran: Central Publication.
Altin, U., Bektas, G., Antep, Z. & Irban, A. (2012). The international patient`s portfolio and marketing of Turkish health tourism. Procedia- Social and Behavioral Sciences, 8th International Strategic Management Conference, 58: 1004- 1007.
Aziz, A., Yusof, R., Ayob, M., Abu Bakar, N. & Awang, A. (2015). Measuring tourist behavioral intention through quality in Malaysian medical tourist industry. Procedia Economics and Finance, International Accounting and Business Conference, IABC, 31: 280- 285.
Bousmah, M., Ventelou, B. & Abu-Zaineh, M. (2016). Medicine and democracy: The importance of institutional quality in the relationship between health expenditure and health outcomes in the MENA region, Health Policy, 120(8): 928-935.
Connell, J. (2006). Medical tourism: Sea, sun, sand and . . . surgery, Tourism Management, 27(6): 1093–1100.
De Vita, G. (2014). The long-run impact of exchange rate regimes on international tourism flows, Tourism Management, 45: 226- 233.
Esiyok, B.,Çakar, M. & Kurtulmuşoğlu, F. (2017). The effect of cultural distance on medical tourism, Journal of Destination Marketing & Management,16(1): 66-75.
Forrester, J. (1989).The beginning of system dynamics. Germany, Banquet talk at the international meeting of system Dynamics Society Stuttgart, 30(7): 1-16.
Global Spa Summit (2010-2011). Spa and the global wellness market: Synergies and opportunities, prepared by SRI International.
Global Wellness Institute (2013-2014). Global Spa and wellness economy monitory, Prepared by SRI International.
Gyu Ko. T. (2011) Medical Tourism System Model, International Journal of Tourism Sciences, 11(1): 17-51.
Harahsheh, S. S. (2002). Curative tourism in Jordan and its potential development, Thesis for the fulfillment of MA in European Tourism Management (ETM), Bournemouth University, United Kingdom, 1-135.
Heung, V. C. S., Kucukusta, D. & Song, H.Y. (2010). A conceptual model of medical tourism: implications for future research, Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 27(3): 236-251.
Medical Tourism Association (2014). Medical tourism facilitators, Available at: http://www.slideshare.net/Accessed May 21.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (www.oecd.org).
Piazolo, M. & Zanca,  A. (2010). The economics of medical tourism: A case study for the USA and India. 8th International Conference on Management, Enterprise and Benchmarking, Budapest, Hungary.
Shahzad Khan, MD. & Shariful Alam, MD. (2014). Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A potential destination for medical tourism, Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences,9(4): 257- 262.
Smith, R., Martínez Álvarez, M. & Chanda, R. (2011). Medical tourism: A review of the literature and analysis of a role for bi-lateral trade, Health Policy,130(2-3): 276– 282.
Smith, P. C., & Forgione, D. (2007). Global outsourcing of healthcare: A medical tourism model, Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research, 9(3): 19–30.
Tham, A. (2018). Sand, surgery and stakeholders: A multi-stakeholder involvement model of domestic medical tourism for Australia’s Sunshine Coast, Tourism Management Perspectives, 25: 29-40.
United Nations (UN) (2007). Case study on movement of patients across borders and its impact on The ESCAP region, in chapter VI: Health And Trade Linkages: Regional perspectives, development of health system in the context of enhancing economic growth towards achieving the millennium development goals in Asia and The Pacific, United Nations, economics and social commission for Asia and The Pacific (ESCAP), 131-137.
Valorie, C., Turner, L., Snyder, J., Johnston, R. & Kingsbury, P. (2011). Promoting medical tourism to India: Messages, images, and the marketing of international patient travel, Social Science & Medicine, 72: 726- 732.
Watson, S. & Stolley, K. (2012). Medical Tourism: a reference handbook, California: Sanata Barbara.
World Bank (http:// www.worldbank.org)
World Tourism Organization (http://www.unwto.org)
www.jointcommissioninternational.org
World Governance Indicator (2002- 2017)
World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org)
Ye, B. H., Yuen, P. P., Qiu, H. Z., & Zhang, V. H. (2008). Motivation of medical tourists: An exploratory case study of Hong Kong medical tourists. Paper presented at the Asia Pacific Tourism Association (APTA) Annual Conference, Bangkok,Thailand.
 
 
Journal of Tourism Planning and Development
Volume 7, Issue 27
June 2019
Pages 26-54

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics