scholarly journals Benefits And Limitations of Medical Tourism Development In Hong Kong: Local residents’ perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-229
Author(s):  
Siu Ching Kwan ◽  
Pimtong Tavitiyaman
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Local Residents

OBJECTIVES: Promoting medical tourism has been discussed by various stakeholders of its destination. High-quality medical products and services is addressed, especially in the Asia Pacific region. This study aims to (1) explore major criteria to establish medical tourism in Hong Kong from the local residents’ perspective and (2) examine the benefits and limitations in developing medical tourism in Hong Kong by the local residents’ age groups. DESIGN: Target samples were local residents with different age groups who had experienced receiving medical treatment or service in Hong Kong. The self-administered survey with 38 questions was created to explore the local residents’ perceptions on various issues of medical tourism development in Hong Kong. Data was collected in April 2021 with the total response rate of 153 respondents. A descriptive analysis and ANOVA test were applied for objective testing. RESULTS: To answer the objectives, the important criteria for medical tourism development in Hong Kong were physician expertise, infrastructure of hospitals, and healthcare quality. The least important criteria were the political and economic condition of that destination and language. The ANOVA results have shown significant differences on the benefits and limitations of developing medical tourism by age groups of local residents. Younger respondents perceived a benefit of medical tourism, rather than elderly respondents in terms of gaining more medical experience. Elderly respondents perceived the limitations of medical tourism development compared to younger respondents in the areas with lacking private sector interest and high cost. CONCLUSION: There are numerous factors for consideration on establishing medical tourism destination in Hong Kong. Local residents perceive an opportunity for Hong Kong as a medical tourism destination. Although some limitations should be closely monitored, local residents would be confident with medical tourism development. (*The paper was presented at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s College of Professional and Continuing Education (CPCE) Conference “Post-pandemic health and long-term care: A new paradigm”. September 2021)

scholarly journals In This Issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
David Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Leadership Engagement ◽  
Extensive Collection

This issue is the fourth and final issue of the Journal for 2021. It reflects a widespread interest in the Asia Pacific with 30 articles from 11 countries. These countries include Australia, India, Iran, Indonesia, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh. Vietnam, Thailand, Turkey and Hong Kong, China. This represents a significant collaboration of healthcare managers, leaders, academics, students, and health professionals from diverse health systems. This is a credit to them all and our reviewers. The topics addressed within the issue continue to be dominated by Covid_19 but are also more extensive than that topic. The topics include leadership, engagement, health literacy, employee performance, job satisfaction, mentoring, , artificial intelligence, big data to name many but not all. This is extensive collection of health management topics that should be of interest. Another continuing feature of this issue is the interest in publishing articles from international conferences. There are articles from four recent conferences. These included the 2021 Shape Symposium conducted from Australia and online, “Shaping the future for health management education and research in a time of flux and uncertainty”, held online in July and available at http://shape.org.au/.   The Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s College of Professional and Continuing Education (CPCE) Conference “Post-pandemic health and long-term care: A new paradigm”. September 2021 with online and ‘in presence’ attendance. Two conferences highlighted in this issue are recognised from India with some eight articles published from these conferences. The conferences were the AICTE sponsored International Conference on Circular Economy, Management and Industry Leading towards Sustainability, October 2021 and the 2nd Conference on Business Data Analytics, November 2021   We wish to specifically mention these conferences and recognise the conference organisers and our guest co -editors on this occasion, who assisted us with the 8 selected articles. The guest co-editors are Mr. Anuj Kumar, Assistant Professor, Apeejay School of Management, Dwarka, Delhi, India https://www.apeejay.edu/asm/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=google+business+listing&utm_campaign=organic.  (Top PGDM Colleges Delhi NCR) and Dr. Nimit Gupta, Professor, School of Management, The NorthCap University, Gurugram, India https://www.ncuindia.edu/educate-india- society/.

Medical tourism development in Hong Kong: An assessment of the barriers

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 995-1005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent C.S. Heung ◽  
Deniz Kucukusta ◽  
Haiyan Song
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development

Is Tibet an Attractive Tourism Destination? A Comparative Study of People’s Organic Image in Mainland China and Hong Kong

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 3278-3282
Author(s):  
Hai Yan Kong ◽  
Guo Sheng Han
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Destination Image ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
The Difference

This study seeks to explore the tourism destination image of Tibet, and further to compare the difference between the organic image of Mainland China and that of Hong Kong. The findings indicated that both group regarded “the natural and beautiful scenery” as the most important attractions of Tibet. The top three motivations of Mainland people were the mysteriousness, natural scenery, and novelty of Tibet”. Hong Kong tourists were most motivated by Tibet’s natural scenery mysteriousness, and culture. In terms of the concerns of traveling to Tibet, people in Mainland China cared most on health issue, while Hong Kong people concerned more on transportation. The findings of this study may provide useful guidance to marketing strategies and sustainable tourism development in Tibet.

Strategi Pengembangan Pariwisata Pasca Bencana Tsunami di Kabupaten Lampung Selatan

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-257
Author(s):  
Sofyan Sofyan ◽  
◽  
Dian Kagungan ◽  
Nana Mulyana ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Tsunami Disaster ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Tourism Potential

Lampung is one of the provinces that has a considerable tourism potential in which each region has tourism potential with its own unique attraction in South Lampung regency. However, the Tsunami disaster that struck the coastal areas of Banten and South Lampung on 22 Desemeber 2018, impacted the decline in the number of tourists visiting the archipelago and abroad to tourist destinations by the end of year 2018. Based on the problems raised above, the purpose of this research is to describe and analyze the strategy conducted by the Tourism and culture Office of South Lampung Regency in the effort to develop tourism sector in South Lampung district after Tsunami disaster. This type of research is qualitative research with a descriptive approach. The research informant is determined purpossive. Data collection techniques are conducted with observations, interviews and documentation. Data analysis techniques are carried out with data reduction, data presentation, drawing conclusions and data triangulation. Data is presented and in a descriptive analysis. Based on the results of the research is known that the Tourism and culture Department of South Lampung district has a strategy to develop tourism potential in South Lampung regency. In determining a strategy for tourism development in South Lampung District after the Tsunami disaster pay attention to four basic factors. These four factors are strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats with some sectors involved in the tourism development process. The conclusion of this research is based on the SWOT anilisis which produces four strategies i.e. SO strategy, WO Strategy, Strategy ST, and WT strategy

The Effects of Economic, Socio-Cultural and Environment of an Integrated Rural Tourism Destination Pinge Village-Tabanan

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
I Wayan Pantiyasa ◽  
Ni Luh Supartini
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Development ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Community Leader ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Alternative Tourism ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Village

Community based Tourism paradigm as a concept of alternative tourism has been able to provide distribution to community either in welfare or empowerment towards sustainable tourism. In relation to this paradigm, this study was conducted to analyze the impacts of rural tourism development in Pinge village. Pinge is one of the village in Tabanan- Bali which has been developed to be rural tourism destination.The approach used in this research was qualitative descriptive. Technique of collecting data was through interviewing with community leader and conducting field observations in order to find out positive and negative impacts to economy, socio cultural and environment to this village. The researcher found that the development of rural tourism provides positive and negative impacts to society in Pinge. From the result of data collection, there were found that economy of society was improved, the culture was preserved, and the environment was arranged well. The result of this study is expected to be a reference study in rural tourism development in Pinge village through controlling the negative impacts from this tourism destination development.

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