Book Chapter

·2023

Health and Travel for Consumers

Ece Özer Çizer YTU

Advances in hospitality, tourism and the services industry (AHTSI) book series

Abstract

This study examines the evolution of health tourism research in the literature in the last two decades. The study used the R Studio program to perform a bibliometric meta-analysis. The dataset consists of 418 articles selected from the Web of Science database by searching for the keywords “health tourism”. Graphics related to the annual scientific production, country of the responsible author, most cited countries, most relevant sources, word cloud, word tree, trend topics, and the thematic map will be included in the study using the visualization technique. In conclusion, the meta-analysis aims to establish a comprehensive framework for the articles on health tourism published in the last two decades.

Keywords

Tourism Thematic map Studio Tag cloud Web of science Thematic analysis Visualization Data science Scopus Computer science Geography MEDLINE Political science Social science Cartography Sociology Data mining Qualitative research Archaeology

Subject Areas

Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism ·General Health Professions ·Health Sciences
Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research ·Sociology and Political Science ·Social Sciences
Diverse Scientific Research in Ukraine ·Global and Planetary Change ·Physical Sciences

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