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Special Collection: Medical Tourism

Medical tourism has enjoyed tremendous worldwide growth in recent decades. It was estimated that more than 5 million medical tourists traveled abroad in 2015, accounting for at least USD 2.5 billion in revenue. Many developed and developing countries have becoming thriving destinations for medical tourism, with varying effects on the local communities.

This unique form of tourism, which typically packages leisure and entertainment with health care, preparation, and recovery, is an emerging phenomenon that has attracted attention from researchers in a range of fields. Because of the breadth and complexity of medical tourism, the literature has not yet achieved a  universally accepted definition of the concept. Definitions often mix medical tourism, health tourism, and medical travel. Notable studies have focused on numerous aspects of medical tourism. However, given the rapid growth and diversity of medical tourism, many of its unexplored aspects are also worthy of scholars’ attention.

The journal invites high-quality, original, unpublished research, case studies, and theoretical papers that grapple with the subject of Medical Tourism in light of quality innovation. As all papers are fully open access, we hope to emerge with a collection of pathbreaking articles that will contribute evidence-based findings and insights of value not just to academic researchers, but also to industrial practitioners, policy-makers, and even customers.

Guest Editors
Hau-Nguyen Le, HoChiMinh City University of Technology–VNU.HCM, Vietnam
DonHee Lee, Inha University, South Korea
Alicia Mas-Tur, University of Valencia, Spain 

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