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Hindi Journal of Tourism Research & HospitalityISSN: 2324-8807
Khanal Bishnu Prasad Author
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Adventure Tourism , Sport Tourism , Spiritual tourism , Tourism Management , Tourism Marketing
Department of Tourism Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo 192-0364, Japan
Biography
Khanal Bishnu is currently working at the Department of Tourism Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University as a Research assistant professor, Tokyo, Japan. Khanal does research in Tourism Management, Tourism Marketing, Tourism Policy, and Health & Medical Tourism Development.
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Factor Affecting the Development of Health Tourism in Nepal: Regarding the Views of Health Tourists
Author(s): Khanal Bishnu Prasad and Tetsuo Shimizu
In this research, we proposed a systematic model by integrating exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and structural equation model (SEM) to examine the major contributing factors and their relative importance to destination competitiveness for Nepal as a health tourism destination from health tourist’s perspectives for the health tourism development. SEM examined the relationships between the individual factors, and the established model was validated by hypothesis testing and goodness-of-fit tests. Since the study has used a structural equation modeling approach to test the hypothesis and figure out the relative importance of the factors, the fundamental indicators such as normed Chi-square (111.301), RMSEA (0.064), GFI (0.944) and CFI (0.961) values shows the overall model fit of t... view more»
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