Investigation of management of international education considering sustainable medical tourism and entrepreneurship

• Published in: Heliyon Vol. 9; no. 1; p. e12691
• Main Authors: Xu, Aoqi, Johari, Seyed Abdolhassan, Khademolomoom, Amir Hossein, Khabaz, Mohsen Tavakoli, Umurzoqovich, Rajabov Sherzod, Hosseini, Saeed, Semiromi, D.T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01-01-2023; Elsevier
• Subjects: Communication technology; Entrepreneurship; Management; Medical tourism; Sustainability; Management; Medical tourism; Communication technology; Sustainability; Entrepreneurship
• ISSN: 2405-8440; 2405-8440
• DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12691

Medical tourism leads to development of economic resources for many countries. This method of tourism has become common in most countries of the world which is one of the dimensions of tourism for development like metal industry or sport industry. The stability and dynamism of country's economy help the development of ecotourism. Furthermore, medical tourism with economic consequences can have significant environmental effects. For this purpose, this research was done to study and evaluate the factors affecting the development of medical tourism in developing countries. The approach governing this research is developmental, and the research method is descriptive and analytical. A multivariate regression test was used to analyze the hypotheses of research, and statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS 19.0 software. The ecotourism and economic management can have a global or local roles as suitable tools for sustainable tourism. Ecotourism is often not properly oriented and mainly defined in such a way that the practitioners are far from the declared standards to achieve and succeed in the sustainability process. The current research is descriptive-explanatory which compiled using library documents. The analysis of the path of above factors shows that all factors of price, quality, facilities, and information and communication technology directly and indirectly play a significant role to enhance the medical tourism.