With the modern advances in bio and healthcare technology, many developed countries, including Korea, experienced a sharp fall in the birth and death rates causing an aging society. Also, acceleration in IT and the economy helped most families increase their income. This suggests that medical tourism could be developed to become one of the most competitive industries in Korea in the future. The purpose of this study is how to find the best marketing strategy for medical tourism in Korea and hold a dominant position in the global medical tourism market. The results of this study presents how much interest and effort we need in order to develop, promote domestic medical tourism and argue that further efforts are necessary to solve the related problems in human resource, infrastructure for materials and environmental infrastructure. This study intends to use the marketing mix strategy as a strategy such as the product, price, place and promotion and also suggests that political support from the government and support from the travel industry, educational institutions and etc. which are closely related to the medical tourism would be valuable to the promotion of the medical tourism and bode well for domestic medical tourism in the future.
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ABSTRACT I. 서론 II. 이론연구 1. 의료관광의 개념 2. 의료관광 마케팅 3. 의료관광 선행연구 III. 의료관광 현황 1. 국내외 의료관광 현황 2. 국외 의료관광 현황 IV. 의료관광마케팅 전략 1. 의료관광 마케팅 전략 2. 의료관광 마케팅믹스 전략 방안 V. 결론 참고문헌
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Medical TourismMarketing mixMarketing strategyMedical marketHealthcare
관광경영학을 실용학문의 체계로 확립하고 실천학문으로 정착시키기 위하여, 관광경영학문을 현실적응에 필요한 연구를 통해 국가관광정책의 방향을 제시하고, 관광사업자들에게는 실질적으로 도움이 되는 경영전략을 제공하며, 연구를 통하여 회원간의 친목도모와 정보교환을 함으로써 상호발전을 목적으로 한다.