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Hindi Journal of Tourism Research & HospitalityISSN: 2324-8807
Tetsuo Shimizu Author
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Tourism marketing management, Multi-criteria decision management, Management decision science
Department of Tourism Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo 192-0364, Japan
Biography
Tetsuhide Shimizu is in Department of Tourism Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo 192-0364, Japan. Tetsuhide Shimizu is professor in Department of Tourism Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo 192-0364, Japan.
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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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