OBJECTIVES Medical tourism involves patients' intentional travel to privately obtain medical care in another country. Empirical evidence regarding health and safety risks facing medical tourists is limited. Consideration of this issue is dominated by speculation and lacks meaningful input from people with specific expertise in patient health and safety. We consulted with patient health and safe...

Older cities with significant physical historic resources have become increasingly important centers for urban tourism, though contemporary attractions and events are often in their own right. It is acknowledged that areas multifaceted agglomerations where tourism complements other economic sectors competes them limited resources. A investigation of the temporal dynamics change has been underta...

BACKGROUND Medical tourism involves patients intentionally leaving their home country to access non-emergency health care services abroad. Growth in the popularity of this practice has resulted in a significant amount of attention being given to it from researchers, policy-makers, and the media. Yet, there has been little effort to systematically synthesize what is known about the effects of th...

BACKGROUND Medical tourism, the intentional pursuit of elective medical treatments in foreign countries, is a rapidly growing global industry. Canadians are among those crossing international borders to seek out privately purchased medical care. Given Canada's universally accessible, single-payer domestic health care system, important implications emerge from Canadians' private engagement in me...

Abstract In the sustainable development of rural tourism, great emphasis is put on protecting quality life local communities in environmental, economic and socio-cultural aspects. The phenomenon tourist enclaves, a classic example which are closed resorts developing countries, indicated as significant threat to such communities. this article, we decided apply concept enclaves spatial second hom...