Medical tourism has been recognized a growing sectors of tourism industry in 21st century. Medical tourist will select medical tourism destination according to evaluation of perceived risk about medical destinations. This study is to investigate the e...
Medical tourism has been recognized a growing sectors of tourism industry in 21st century. Medical tourist will select medical tourism destination according to evaluation of perceived risk about medical destinations. This study is to investigate the effects of medical travelers’ perceived risk on the selection intention of medical tourism destination. For this purpose, we collected survey data from 399 tourists of Chinese and Japanese visiting Jeju island from Dec. 2007 to Jan 2008. ANOVA test results showed that there were significant differences on perceived risk of medical tourism destinations according to demographic characteristics such as nations, ages, education levels, and incomes. Multiple regression result showed that perceived performance risk and perceived social risk have negative impact on the selection intention of medical destination, but perceived financial risk has no significant impact.