Travel for health as a type of niche tourism and economic growth: A cross-country panel data analysis

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dc.authorid0000-0001-5484-5189
dc.contributor.authorAgazade, Seymur
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-24T12:30:50Z
dc.date.available2026-01-24T12:30:50Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.departmentAlanya Alaaddin Keykubat Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractAlthough the potential of the health tourism to support economic growth can be based on strong theoretical foundations, it is also argued that this tourism type may hinder economic growth by weakening labor productivity. On this basis, the present study aims to examine the effect of health tourism on economic growth. The study uses panel data fixed effects method with Driscoll-Kraay standard errors and dataset of 72 countries. The findings strongly supported that health tourism boosts economic growth. To be more precise, it was estimated that a one-point increase in health tourism revenues, expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) of personal health travel exports, causes an increase of 4.9345 in GDP growth rate and 4.2558 in per capita GDP growth rate. Furthermore, the negative growth effect of health tourism through labor productivity, which is theoretically proposed and expressed as crowding-out effect, was not supported by the findings.
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/jtr.2681
dc.identifier.issn1099-2340
dc.identifier.issn1522-1970
dc.identifier.issue4
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85199140445
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2681
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12868/5464
dc.identifier.volume26
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001274548500001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Tourism Research
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20260121
dc.subjectcrowding-out effect
dc.subjecteconomic growth
dc.subjecthealth tourism
dc.subjectlearning effect
dc.subjectpanel data
dc.titleTravel for health as a type of niche tourism and economic growth: A cross-country panel data analysis
dc.typeArticle

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