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...

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between economic growth and tourism revenues in Turkey within scope tourism-led hypothesis with help tests that take into account structural breaks. In context, causality cointegration based on Fourier approach were used by considering industrial production index, real effective exchange rate data for January 2005-December 2019 period. result...

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 objective of this paper is to examine the impact war in Ukraine on inbound tour operators. hypothesis that has a significant Lithuanian operators was tested using quantitative research method. To do so, data collected through an online survey, targeting providing ground services for international tourists Lithuania. moment survey (2022, April) provided opportunity effect tourism. results sh...

Informational asymmetry and fragmentation of capacity suppliers in the tourist industry provide travel intermediaries with market power. Market structure is characterized by over-capacity in off-peak seasons, high fixed costs and low variable costs, leading to product under-pricing. Forward sales of capacity at low contract prices surrender profits from consumer surplus to intermediaries enjoyi...

Overtourism might be one of the most characteristic trends and phenomena tourism in 2010s. However, after a rapid transformation caused by overtourism, an even faster more unexpected change appeared 2020: due to COVID-19 pandemic, temporarily disappeared from cities other destinations worldwide. These two opposite extreme were so close time that they can compared their perception different stak...

The tourism footprint family comprises the tourism ecological footprint (TEF), the tourism carbon footprint (TCF) and the tourism water footprint (TWF). The tourism footprint represents an important tool for quantitatively assessing the impact of tourism activities on the ecosystem of a tourist destination. This paper systematically reviews the relevant literature on TEF, TCF and TWF, analyses ...