@article{ART001372154},
author={Kim Hyung-soon and Jong-Cheon Joo},
title={A Study on the Strategies for Stimulating Medical Tourism in Oriental Medicine Blue Ocean of the 21st Century},
journal={Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine},
issn={1226-4075},
year={2009},
volume={21},
number={2},
pages={137-143}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kim Hyung-soon
AU - Jong-Cheon Joo
TI - A Study on the Strategies for Stimulating Medical Tourism in Oriental Medicine Blue Ocean of the 21st Century
JO - Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine
PY - 2009
VL - 21
IS - 2
PB - The Society of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine
SP - 137
EP - 143
SN - 1226-4075
AB - 1. Objective
This study aims to evaluate the medical tourism structures in countries with prosperous medical tourism industry such as Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and India in order to propose optimal strategies that can promote the medical tourism in Korea.
2. Methods
All pertinent literature concerning medical tourism directly and indirectly were assessed, and reviews of medical tourism strategies found in various countries were evaluated.
3. Results
Evaluation of related literature reveals that medical tourism is a recent burgeoning industry that has grown in market size considerably in the last five to ten years. Also, it shows that oriental medicine is a highly likely candidate amidst the various medical fields for attraction foreign patients.
4. Conclusion
The Korean government should support and install appropriate legal and administrative bodies in order to attract medical tourists; Korea-specific medical tourism programs (ie. traditional Korean medicine package tours) should be developed in order to attract medical tourists from the western world and the middle-east. In addition, low-price policy of medical tourism is not a proper strategies for the competition against advanced medical tourism destinations such as Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and India. Differentiated medical tourism package such as oriental medical tourism program rather than provision of low-price policy seems to be more effective strategy for the medical tourism in Korea.
Future studies on strategies for promoting medical tourism should focus on how foreigners recognize traditional Korean medicine, what diagnostic approach might be appealing to them and how the legal system concerning the medical procedures may be altered and modified.
KW - Medical Tourism;Oriental medicine;Oriental medical tourism
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Kim Hyung-soon and Jong-Cheon Joo. (2009). A Study on the Strategies for Stimulating Medical Tourism in Oriental Medicine Blue Ocean of the 21st Century. Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine, 21(2), 137-143.
Kim Hyung-soon and Jong-Cheon Joo. 2009, "A Study on the Strategies for Stimulating Medical Tourism in Oriental Medicine Blue Ocean of the 21st Century", Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine, vol.21, no.2 pp.137-143.
Kim Hyung-soon, Jong-Cheon Joo "A Study on the Strategies for Stimulating Medical Tourism in Oriental Medicine Blue Ocean of the 21st Century" Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine 21.2 pp.137-143 (2009) : 137.
Kim Hyung-soon, Jong-Cheon Joo. A Study on the Strategies for Stimulating Medical Tourism in Oriental Medicine Blue Ocean of the 21st Century. 2009; 21(2), 137-143.
Kim Hyung-soon and Jong-Cheon Joo. "A Study on the Strategies for Stimulating Medical Tourism in Oriental Medicine Blue Ocean of the 21st Century" Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine 21, no.2 (2009) : 137-143.
Kim Hyung-soon; Jong-Cheon Joo. A Study on the Strategies for Stimulating Medical Tourism in Oriental Medicine Blue Ocean of the 21st Century. Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine, 21(2), 137-143.
Kim Hyung-soon; Jong-Cheon Joo. A Study on the Strategies for Stimulating Medical Tourism in Oriental Medicine Blue Ocean of the 21st Century. Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine. 2009; 21(2) 137-143.
Kim Hyung-soon, Jong-Cheon Joo. A Study on the Strategies for Stimulating Medical Tourism in Oriental Medicine Blue Ocean of the 21st Century. 2009; 21(2), 137-143.
Kim Hyung-soon and Jong-Cheon Joo. "A Study on the Strategies for Stimulating Medical Tourism in Oriental Medicine Blue Ocean of the 21st Century" Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine 21, no.2 (2009) : 137-143.
