A Systematic Review on Determinants Inciting Sustainable E-Medical Tourism

A Systematic Review on Determinants Inciting Sustainable E-Medical Tourism

Sumit Oberoi, Pooja Kansra, S. L. Gupta
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/IJRQEH.299962
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Abstract

Medical tourism attracts medical vacationers by promoting its uniform vacation ease, healthcare know-how, proficiency, and comprehensible amenities. With the upsurge in COVID-19 cases and no therapeutic treatment, non-pharmaceutical intrusions are the utmost priority. Unprecedented travel limitations and homestay restrictions are posing a huge economic burden to the tourism industry. The present study aims to identify determinants inciting sustainable e-medical tourism post COVID-19 pandemic. The study is advanced from the theoretical outlook, systematically determining and scrutinizing the prior literature to discuss the determinants which encourage e-medical tourism. The results of the study highlight that resource and management assistance, electronic supporting facilities, demand issues, technological intervention, and situational glitches act as major aspects of perseverance of e-medical tourism. An apparent limitation of the present study is the absence of contributions based on empirical data.
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Methodology

The present systematic review is accomplished in congruence with the “Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) framework”. According to Oberoi and Kansra (2020), “The article suggests a minimum set of guidelines and procedures of writing items to enhance the quality of the systematic review”. Exploration and accumulation of reliable literature was executed from August 2020.

Search Strategy

An all-inclusive literature review on sustainable medical tourism and determinants inciting sustainable e-medical tourism (SeMT) was executed under different databases viz. Academia, EBSCO, Google Scholar, ProQuest and Research Gate. Additionally, backward referencing of the included studies was also done to identify supplementary articles. Various search phrases and combinations of keywords such as “Sustainable Tourism”, “E-Healthcare”, “E-Tourism”, “Medical Vacation”, “Determinants”, “Covid-19”, “Pandemic”, “Tourist Behaviour”, “Conceptual Models” and “Systematic Review” were applied for acquiring preferred outcomes. A total of 373 studies (comprising duplicate) were found after employing the search criteria. Therefore, 267 articles were recognized to be identical and eliminated instantaneously.

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