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T1 Systematic Literature Review of Health Tourism Innovation
T2 Revisión sistemática de la literatura sobre innovación en turismo de salud
A1 Pırnar, İge
A1 Ozan Altın, Hüseyin
K1 Bibliometric analysis
K1 Health tourism
K1 Spa tourism
K1 Innovation
K1 medical tourism
AB Innovation is an important issue for any business and especially vital concept for theestablishment and growth of a successful health tourism businesses for gaining business improvementand differential advantage in competition. Purpose of this study is to figure out gaps in the innovationin health tourism entrepreneurship literature, show the comprehensive whole situation, areas wherethe related areas focused on and indicate the related promising areas for research in health tourisminnovation. Thus, the significance of this study lies in 2 sub topics as; 1) providing a brief literature reviewon health tourism innovation 2) indicate the research gaps in health tourism innovation. Results indicatethat there is a serious research gap in the innovation studies in spa and wellness tourism, since studiesare concentrated on health and medical tourism. Moreover, it is understood that qualitative research ispreferred by the majority of the authors followed by the mixed methods which leads to a research gap forquantitative studies in the area. Hence, most researched areas consist of determinants of innovativeness,impact on costs, innovation’s relationship with sustainability, innovation drivers, collaboration, aspectsof innovation on success, innovation types’ effectiveness on health tourism establishments and successfulinnovation applications.
PB Universidad de La Laguna, Instituto de Investigación Social y Turismo
SN 1695-7121
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/37273
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/37273
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 19-may-2024