Medical tourism, alternatively called health tourism and wellness tourism, is a term that has risen from the rapid growth of an industry where people from all around the world are traveling to other countries to obtain medical, dental, and surgical care while at the same time touring,...

This paper identifies the major demographic trends and their implications for consumer market. It is important to know how will demographic change influence the tourism market in particularly and how can the tourist industry adapt to these. The advancing ageing of society will result in far...

Available evidence from the literature tells that satisfaction depends upon the consistency between expectations and performance. When product performance is below expectations dissatisfaction is resulted, whereas satisfaction arises when performance equals or exceeds the performance expected....

Mainly employing the frameworks provided by the opponent process theory and the trans-theoretical model of change, the present paper introduces the concept of ‘nativistic motivation’ into the tourism literature. Although nativistic motivation might turn out to be an important category in the...

The paper begins with an examination of how the degree of personal involvement in a purchase decision affects the information needed to reduce cognitive dissonance associated with that purchase. The authors argue that, highly involved individuals, because of their high involvement in purchase...