THE MAIN CONDITIONS FOR MEDICAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT - THE STATE OF ISRAEL
Abstract
The subject of the paper refers to the fast growing field of health care tourism called medical tourism. The term medical tourismis usually defined as the system of improved medicalprocedures, treatments and services which attract foreigners to travel abroad and use/consume them.The aim of this paper is to emphasize the main conditions for medical tourism development, using the method of case study and method of qualitative analysis, based on the secondary research data, describing the development of medical tourism in the State of Israel.
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