Due to the recent Korean wave, the number of Chinese tourists is increasing and due to the development of medical tourism industry targeting them, the industrial, economic, and academic interest is being raised. At this point that the medical tourism ...
Due to the recent Korean wave, the number of Chinese tourists is increasing and due to the development of medical tourism industry targeting them, the industrial, economic, and academic interest is being raised. At this point that the medical tourism service industry of Korea targeting Chinese tourists is on the developing step, the overall recognition survey, consumer attitude(satisfaction level), and behavior survey (reuse and recommended intention) are necessary in regard to Korean medical tourism service industry targeting Chinese tourists in order to find out what the path of medical tourism service of the right direction is. With this, the structural relationship was examined about what impact the nation image and medical service image about Korea, which were perceived by Chinese tourists before the medical tourism who had the experience of medical tourism service in Korea, had on the risk perception and medical service quality and loyalty. The literature consideration and precedent study survey were conducted for this study and the questionnaire was made using the measuring tool to verify the study model and hypothesis set through this and the questionnaire was carried out targeting 212 Chinese tourists who had the experience of receiving the medical service after visiting Korea for the medical tourism, and the analysis result of the survey targeting Chinese tourists is as follows.
First, the level of satisfaction of the medical tourism service quality was high and in the relationship that the loyalty increased, the significant influence appeared in the state of good national image and low risk perception of medical tourism.
Second, it was confirmed that as the image of medical service was good, the risk perception about the medical tourism was less felt and if the satisfaction level of medical tourism service quality was high, the loyalty on Korean medical tourism became high.
Third, in the relationship that the loyalty became high if the satisfaction level of the medical tourism service quality was high, the significant impact appeared as the risk perception of medical tourism was low.
Fourth, it was confirmed if the satisfaction level of the medical tourism service quality was high, the loyalty became high.
Fifth, it was confirmed if the national image was good, the loyalty became high due to the indirect impact (because risk perception was less felt and the service quality became good).
Sixth, it was confirmed if the medical service image was good, the loyalty became high due to the indirect impact (because risk perception was less felt and the service quality became good).
Seventh, it was confirmed if the risk perception of medical tourism was low, the loyalty became high due to the indirect impact (because the service quality became good).
And the thought-provoking points looked at through the analysis results were as follows.
First, the sense of responsibility and effort of the medical tourism industry is eagerly required for the stable and consistent growth of the medical tourism market, and the complementation of the institutional device that can regulate the responsibility and liability like this should be arranged.
Second, the measures of the industry and institutional support of the government are needed in the dimension of securing the stability on various risk factors that can take place in the medical tourism with the arrangement of improving plan of the national image and medical service image. And the service qualities Chinese tourists recognize after experiencing the medical tourism service after deciding the Korean medical tourism and then entering Korea are corporeity, reliability, sympathy, reactivity, and certainty, and the effort of industry to maximize the level of satisfaction on this service quality is eagerly required.