Factors Driving the American Aesthetic Tourism to South of the Border
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Article Type:
Research/Original Article (دارای رتبه معتبر)
Abstract:
Background
The problem consists in the lack of knowledge of the factors that tourists choose the clinics of a foreign city for their aesthetics treatments, especially at a frontier where a developed and developing country co-exist and interact.
Methods
The information was obtained on 2016, by applying an exit pool survey to a selected sample of 385 visitors- patients from clinics in the Tijuana, Mexico. Sixteen items were included in the exploratory factor analysis.
Results
Four key factors influenced the decision: Quality & Prestige of Clinic and Surgeon, Integration with Tourism Sector, Destination Image and Border Interaction. All the elements had a load factor greater than 0.56 which proved the actual fit in the factor analysis and none of the included variables is trivial.
Conclusion
Allow maintaining or increasing the attractiveness of a border city for aesthetic tourism, the administra-tors of the clinics establish cooperation agreements with entrepreneurs of the tourism sector to benefit their patients.Keywords:
Language:
English
Published:
Iranian Journal of Public Health, Volume:48 Issue: 1, Jan 2019
Pages:
53 to 61
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