Analysis and evaluation of competitiveness in medical tourism industry in Taiwan
Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems
; 5(6):1690-1697, 2020.
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in English
| Scopus | ID: covidwho-1040217
ABSTRACT
Tourism is relatively high profit, low-cost and high work opportunity industry. Medical tourism is special kind of business type in tourism industry. The characteristic of medical tourism is high threshold and high profit for hospital and government. But, fewer literatures research about competitiveness of medical tourism industry until now. Especially, medical tourism industry faces big challenge when COVID-19 occurs which stop patient to go abroad for treating in the world. This research arranges relative literatures and invite some expert's opinion to design criteria for evaluating competitiveness of medical tourism industry in each area. After that, linguistic VIKOR and Entropy will be integrated to analyze and evaluate performance of medical tourism industry among China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. Finally, some reasonable suggestion will be provided for Taiwan government and hospital. © 2020 ASTES Publishers. All rights reserved.
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Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems
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2020
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