BACKGROUND Medical tourism - travel across international borders for health care - appears to be growing globally, with patients from high-income nations increasingly visiting low- and middle-income countries to access such services. This paper analyses Australian television and newspaper news and current affairs coverage to examine how medical tourism and these destinations for the practice ar...

The amount of marine debris in the environment is increasing worldwide, which results in an array of negative effects to biota. This study provides the first account of macrodebris on the beach and microplastics in the sediment (shoreline and infralittoral) in relation to tourism activities in Slovenia. The study assessed the quality and quantity of macrodebris and the quality, size and quantit...

iran due to its unique condition in terms of tourist attraction and because of the specific location and a variety of natural resources and human phenomena, that different regions of the country including guilan province has a typical position in terms of tourism which attracts a lot of tourists. by itself, ecological, environmental, cultural, historical and religious attraction in the north, w...

In this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing Ronald Andersen's behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the recent empirical study of Kovacs et al. on patients travelling to Hungary for orthopedic treatment. Finally, we plead for more measurement in the field of patient ...

Medical tourism in Ireland, like in many Western states, is built around assumptions about individual agency, choice, possibility, and mobility. One specific form of medical tourism—the flow of women from Ireland traveling in order to secure an abortion—disrupts and contradicts these assumptions. One legacy of the bitter, contentious political and legal battles surrounding abortion in Ireland i...

The economic impact in the form of income is one important needs for community. Income can be used to continue living meet needs. Tourism activities are example that provide an surrounding An a place tourism Religious Tour Tomb KH Abdul Hamid Pasuruan City. grave favorite tour with many visitors. This study aims find out existence religious on uses qualitative approach. data primary collection ...

Evaluation of the role cultural-religious indices in tourism development with an emphasis on Chehel Dokhtar ritual Khorram Abad city