Medical tourism for COVID-19 post-crisis recovery?

摘要

COVID-19 is a global pandemic that at end May 2020 has resulted in six million global cases (World Health Organization [WHO], 2020). The unfolding COVID-19 crisis has severely impacted the tourism industry through a combination of business and health regulations (Ayittey et al., 2020). While the tourism industry has faced numerous crises in the past, few studies have explored if medical tourism can be a strategy for post-crisis destination recovery. This research note seeks to fill such gaps by exploring the case of medical tourism to Iran as a post COVID-19 strategy.