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Medical Tourism and Egypt's Strategic Vision 2030: Pull Motivations That Trigger the International Patients' Intention to Visit Egypt as a Medical Tourism Hub

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This research examines the effect of international patient motivators to travel (pull factors) on international patients' intention to visit Egypt as medical tourism destination. It proposes a model which examines the relationship between pull factors and patient intention toward Egypt as a medical tourism destination. Also, this research presents an integrated approach to understanding the tourist's motivations and attempts to expand the empirical evidence on the relationships between pull motives in order to determine the extent to which these motivating factors will contribute to the overall perception of a destination. The research was based on a quantitative survey applied among 118 patients who traveled to Egypt as a medical tourism destination to receive treatment using snowball sampling procedures. Data were gathered online using (Google forms) conducted with the patient who visited Egypt for medical treatment. Structural equation modeling was employed to test the hypothesized relationships among the model constructs. The research findings reveal that; both pull factors (healthcare provider-specific, destination specific) have positive impact on intention of patient. While, destination specific is the most effective pull factors. More specifically, the destination specific can be arranged as following: Environment and safety, Culture and historical attractions, then the tourism facilities. Moreover, the Healthcare provider service factors can be arranged as following: the service quality, waiting time, and medical cost. Finally, the results revealed six pull factor dimensions and the results of the correlation analysis indicate that significant relationships were found between the six pull factor dimensions.

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10.21608/ajccr.2022.245006

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Motivation, Medical tourism, pull factors, customer intention, Satisfaction, Healthcare provider, Destination specific, Strategic vision of Egypt 2030 And Strategic vision of Africa 2063 for sustainable development

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Gamal

Last Name

AbdelAziz

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Sayed

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Faculty of Commerce, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

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ibtesam

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kewina

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samir

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Consultant in the pharmaceutical industry , Part-time instructor, Faculty of Commerce, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

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ibtesamkewina@yahoo.com

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Giza

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2

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2

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35120

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2022-06-01

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2022-06-20

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2022-06-01

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53

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77

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2805-248X

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2805-2498

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The Academic Journal of Contemporary Commercial Research

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Medical Tourism and Egypt's Strategic Vision 2030: Pull Motivations That Trigger the International Patients' Intention to Visit Egypt as a Medical Tourism Hub

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23 Jan 2023