Review article
https://doi.org/10.20867/thm.2.2.4
Health service - a part of the tourism product
Marcel Meler
; Faculty of Economics, University of Osijek, Croatia
Drago Ružić
; Faculty of Economics, University of Osijek, Croatia
Dragan Kovačević
; Parliament of the Republic of Croatia, Board of Economiy, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The history and evolution of tourism show that the beginnings of tourism, as well as its later development are based on the development of those destinations that had markedly attractive factors of curative character. Health tourism can therefore be defined as a joint working area of health service and tourism where these two, on the partnership basis and with a mutual interest, organize the stay of individuals as tourists who come to places with marked natural and curative factors which they use and w'here they under medical control (or without it) receive health services through active vacation and through various other forms of treatment. The satisfaction of the need for health services, as well as for other partial tourist products that aim at satisfying the need for health services, also demands an adjustment of the business operations of the subjects offering
tourist products, especially in hotel industry. Having in mind the fact that tourist movements, to a greater or lesser extent, also represent “movements for health purposes”, it is extremely important that hoteliers fully recognize the specific characteristics (e g., age structure, health condition and habits, etc.) of those segments of guests to which they direct their services and products.
Keywords
marketing; tourist product; health service; health tourism; tourist service; partial product
Hrčak ID:
182408
URI
Publication date:
30.12.1996.
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