<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The article discusses the issues of development of aesthetic medicine tourism. Its aim is to identify the essence and scope of services related to aesthetic medicine tourism and its location within the health tourism. The article is based on the theoretical study of literature from the field of health tourism and aesthetic medicine as well as empirical research results. The article discusses the issues of conditions of social changes that contribute to the creation of new trends in the tourism market. Further, it characterises aesthetic medicine. The article presents the results of empirical research indicating the need to expand the segment of health tourism to include aesthetic medicine tourism. Then the differentiators of aesthetic medicine tourism were identified, which may qualify it as a separate segment of health tourism. The theoretical added value of the article is the indication of the development of a new trend in health tourism and the identification of traits that allow the isolation of a new trend - aesthetic medicine tourism.</p></abstract>

The article discusses the issues of development of aesthetic medicine tourism. Its aim is to identify the essence and scope of services related to aesthetic medicine tourism and its location within the health tourism. The article is based on the theoretical study of literature from the field of health tourism and aesthetic medicine as well as empirical research results. The article discusses the issues of conditions of social changes that contribute to the creation of new trends in the tourism market. Further, it characterises aesthetic medicine. The article presents the results of empirical research indicating the need to expand the segment of health tourism to include aesthetic medicine tourism. Then the differentiators of aesthetic medicine tourism were identified, which may qualify it as a separate segment of health tourism. The theoretical added value of the article is the indication of the development of a new trend in health tourism and the identification of traits that allow the isolation of a new trend - aesthetic medicine tourism.

Aesthetic medicine tourism – nature and scope of the services

Bialystok University of Technology, Faculty of Management

Engineering Management in Production and Services

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The article discusses the issues of development of aesthetic medicine tourism. Its aim is to identify the essence and scope of services related to aesthetic...

Aesthetic medicine tourism – nature and scope of the services

Published Online: Mar 26, 2016

Page range: 71 - 79

Received: Jan 26, 2016

Accepted: Feb 29, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/emj-2016-0008

Keywords
aesthetic medicine tourism, health tourism

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Aesthetic medicine tourism – nature and scope of the services

Published Online: Mar 26, 2016

Page range: 71 - 79

Received: Jan 26, 2016

Accepted: Feb 29, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/emj-2016-0008

Keywordsaesthetic medicine tourism, health tourism

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
aesthetic medicine tourism, health tourism