TY - JFULL AU - Pei-Ti Chen and Ren-Hua Kung and Ming 鈥揧i Huang and Fuu-Diing Chen and Lei Pei PY - 2012/9/ TI - Exploring the Medical Tourism Development Barriers and Participation Willingness in Taiwan: An Example of Mainland Tourist T2 - International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences SP - 2131 EP - 2137 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/8697 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 68, 2012 N2 - Medical Tourism is a new development in Taiwan recently. The willingness and barriers of potential tourists from China to participate medical tourism are studied. A questionnaire survey is conducted and the SPSS software is used to analyze data. The results show that under one fifth of respondents express full medical tourism participation willingness. Among travel barriers toward medical tourism, 鈥渋nsufficient information of medical tourism trip", 鈥渘ot enough time", 鈥渘o companion", 鈥渨orrying about unsatisfied itinerary." are perceived the most important barriers. ER -