Enlightenment of Medical Hotel on the development of Medical Tourism in China

DOI

10.2991/icessms-16.2017.100How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Medical hotel, Medical tourism, China.

Abstract

Although health tourism has become a fashionable industry in contemporary society, consumers are no longer satisfied with simple rehabilitation and recuperation. Therefore, a new favorite tourism product that seeking medical treatment overseas has become popular. In this research, the authors analyzes the development status of medical hotel in China based on the literature review and field survey. Furthermore, based on the qualitative research, this study explains that medical hotel is an inevitable trend in the future due to its mixed functions that can help to break the existing reception short-board of medical tourism destinations. This research makes contributions to the theory of medical tourism and also the sustainable development of medical tourism industry.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Lei Jin
AU  - Rui Zhang
PY  - 2017/02
DA  - 2017/02
TI  - Enlightenment of Medical Hotel on the development of Medical Tourism in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Education, Social Science, Management and Sports (ICESSMS 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 481
EP  - 485
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icessms-16.2017.100
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