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SNS Information Credibility, Medical Tourism Website Credibility and Destination Image

Advanced science and technology lettersPublished 16 December 2015
Min Sook Kim
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TL;DR

A new model for enhancing medical tourism destination image is proposed by integrating the credibility of supplier- based official websites and buyer-based private SNS, which influence medical tourism destinations credibility and image.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new model for enhancing medical tourism destination image by integrating the credibility of supplier- based official websites and buyer-based private SNS, which influence medical tourism destination credibility and image. Medical tourism websites provide supplier-based information storage but SNS information about Korean medical tourism contains buyer-based information. These two channels play important factors in positioning Korea as medical tourism destination.

Keywords

Social SciencesHealth ProfessionsBusiness, Management and Accounting