نتایج جستجو برای: medical tourists

تعداد نتایج: 601362  

2013
Jeremy Snyder Valorie A Crooks Rory Johnston Shafik Dharamsi

BACKGROUND Medical tourism-the practice where patients travel internationally to privately access medical care-may limit patients' regular physicians' abilities to contribute to the informed decision-making process. We address this issue by examining ways in which Canadian family doctors' typical involvement in patients' informed decision-making is challenged when their patients engage in medic...

2010
Ming Ming Su

Th rough their multiple roles in tourism, residents of destination communities interact with tourists at destinations. Th e consequences of these host-guest interactions are bi-directional. Much research has been done on impacts of host-guest interactions on the local community. On the other hand, few studies have evaluated how tourists' on-site behaviour and experiences are aff ected by such i...

2002
Franz Pühretmair Hildegard Rumetshofer Erwin Schaumlechner

E-commerce initiatives show that tourism data is one of the most accessed data in the Web. The problem is that a high number of users is rather unexperienced in Web use. The handling of tourism information systems is often a complex and time consuming process for tourists. To satisfy the tourists expectations it is inevitable to support the tourist in travel planning and decision making. Most t...

2016
Padam P Simkhada Aditi Sharma Edwin R van Teijlingen Rachel L Beanland

BACKGROUND Increased travel abroad has a significant impact on the incidence and prevalence of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). Previous reviews have focused on the knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of tourists and acquisition of STIs. Less is known about the impact on tourism operators in countries visited by tourists. The aim of this review is to ascertain factors influencing sexual b...

2014
David Schnabel Joanna Gaines Duc B. Nguyen Douglas H. Esposito Alison Ridpath Kari Yacisin Jose A. Poy Jocelyn Mullins Rachel Burns Virginia Lijewski Nora P. McElroy Nina Ahmad Cassandra Harrison Ellen J. Parinelli Amanda L. Beaudoin Leah Posivak-Khouly P. Scott Pritchard Bette J. Jensen Nadege C. Toney Heather A. Moulton-Meissner Edith N. Nyangoma M. Anita Barry Katherine A. Feldman David Blythe Joseph F. Perz Oliver W. Morgan Phyllis Kozarsky Gary W. Brunette Mark Sotir

In August 2013, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (MDHMH) was notified of two persons with rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacterial (RG-NTM) surgical-site infections. Both patients had undergone surgical procedures as medical tourists at the same private surgical clinic (clinic A) in the Dominican Republic the previous month. Within 7 days of returning to the United State...

2009
Mohd Hairi Jalis Mohd Salehuddin Mohd Zahari Mohd Hairi

Continual efforts have been made by international organizations to discover new tourism products and activities that have the opportunity of being marketed and promoted. Gastronomy has been identified as one of the new tourism product which is directly relevant to the Malaysian context. At present gastronomy is a valuable source of attracting tourists from all over the world and this has led to...

2015
Andreas Strobl Karin Teichmann Mike Peters

Ecotourists appreciate nature and are willing to learn about nature and ecology. Th erefore ecotourism is often seen as a product package that supports sustainable tourism development. Th is study contributes to existing research in the fi eld of ecotourism as it investigates how travel motives and environmental concern of mountain tourists infl uences their actual demand for ecotourism. A surv...

2017
Sara Dolnicar

This paper identifies which information about tourists serves as the best predictor of their pro-environmental behavior at home and on vacation. If a small set of predictors can be identified, the tourism industry would be able to use them to focus attention on attracting tourists with smaller environmental footprints. Results from a survey asking respondents about pro-environmental behavior in...

2006
Marko Modsching Ronny Kramer Klaus ten Hagen Ulrike Gretzel

Mobile tourist guides shall help tourists to discover sights off the beaten tracks and therewith spread them over the destination more equally. Mobile information systems complement more traditional means of information provision, e.g. printed maps, guide booklets or simply signage at the destination. The most important question is: “How are mobile information systems accepted by ordinary touri...

2009
Zulkifli Ibrahim Mohd Salehuddin Zahari Maimunah Sulaiman

This study examined the travelling pattern of the Arab tourists in relation to their purpose and frequency of visit, duration of stay, travelling companions and activities engaged in during the vacation. The preferences of these tourists for hotel restaurant food and front office attributes while staying in selected five star hotels were also investigated. The result demonstrated that Arab tour...

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