Factors influencing medical tourism destination choice in Klang Valley, Malaysia / Nur Hazira Zulkifli and Aisyah Afifah Che Man

The purpose of this paper is to understand and analyse the factors that influencing tourists in choosing a destination for medical tourism in Malaysia. To achieve this research paper, the study examines the motivation of individuals to engage in medical tourism and certain criteria that will evaluat...

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Main Authors: Zulkifli, Nur Hazira, Che Man, Aisyah Afifah
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32689/
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description The purpose of this paper is to understand and analyse the factors that influencing tourists in choosing a destination for medical tourism in Malaysia. To achieve this research paper, the study examines the motivation of individuals to engage in medical tourism and certain criteria that will evaluate alternative medical tourism destination. As we know, Malaysia is one of best destination for tourists to do their treatment or medical. There are many reasons why Malaysia’s become the most popular destination for medical tourism. There are three main factors that influencing the destination choice of medical tourism which are towards price, high-quality of services and easy access medical alternatives. The study also examines the research objectives, problems statement which occur in previous research and also several limitations occur in this research. The limitation that occurs in this study is towards the risk of quality and safety, language barriers and also towards difficulty to determine how qualified a doctor in another country. This study also concludes the data analysis by using SPSS towards factors influencing medical tourism destination in Malaysia.
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spelling uitm-326892020-10-30T06:01:15Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32689/ Factors influencing medical tourism destination choice in Klang Valley, Malaysia / Nur Hazira Zulkifli and Aisyah Afifah Che Man Zulkifli, Nur Hazira Che Man, Aisyah Afifah Travel and the state. Tourism Agritourism The purpose of this paper is to understand and analyse the factors that influencing tourists in choosing a destination for medical tourism in Malaysia. To achieve this research paper, the study examines the motivation of individuals to engage in medical tourism and certain criteria that will evaluate alternative medical tourism destination. As we know, Malaysia is one of best destination for tourists to do their treatment or medical. There are many reasons why Malaysia’s become the most popular destination for medical tourism. There are three main factors that influencing the destination choice of medical tourism which are towards price, high-quality of services and easy access medical alternatives. The study also examines the research objectives, problems statement which occur in previous research and also several limitations occur in this research. The limitation that occurs in this study is towards the risk of quality and safety, language barriers and also towards difficulty to determine how qualified a doctor in another country. This study also concludes the data analysis by using SPSS towards factors influencing medical tourism destination in Malaysia. 2013 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32689/1/32689.pdf Zulkifli, Nur Hazira and Che Man, Aisyah Afifah (2013) Factors influencing medical tourism destination choice in Klang Valley, Malaysia / Nur Hazira Zulkifli and Aisyah Afifah Che Man. (2013) [Student Project] <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/32689.pdf> (Unpublished)
spellingShingle Travel and the state. Tourism
Agritourism
Zulkifli, Nur Hazira
Che Man, Aisyah Afifah
Factors influencing medical tourism destination choice in Klang Valley, Malaysia / Nur Hazira Zulkifli and Aisyah Afifah Che Man
title Factors influencing medical tourism destination choice in Klang Valley, Malaysia / Nur Hazira Zulkifli and Aisyah Afifah Che Man
title_full Factors influencing medical tourism destination choice in Klang Valley, Malaysia / Nur Hazira Zulkifli and Aisyah Afifah Che Man
title_fullStr Factors influencing medical tourism destination choice in Klang Valley, Malaysia / Nur Hazira Zulkifli and Aisyah Afifah Che Man
title_full_unstemmed Factors influencing medical tourism destination choice in Klang Valley, Malaysia / Nur Hazira Zulkifli and Aisyah Afifah Che Man
title_short Factors influencing medical tourism destination choice in Klang Valley, Malaysia / Nur Hazira Zulkifli and Aisyah Afifah Che Man
title_sort factors influencing medical tourism destination choice in klang valley, malaysia / nur hazira zulkifli and aisyah afifah che man
topic Travel and the state. Tourism
Agritourism
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32689/