Effect of non-medical Factors on Health Tourism Development

Health tourism as one of the recent branches of international tourism has been development more than any tourism sectors in recent years. This study has a practical purpose and data are collected by a survey research. The participants of the study were 400 foreign tourism travelling to Tehran hospitals. To determine the sample a Cochran Formula at %95Sig. was used and a sample of196 persons was determined. To collect data, a standard questionnaire was applied for studying health tourism and a questionnaire development by researchers was used for non-medical Factors section. Both questionnaire were distributed through Stratified random approved through content validity. Its reliability measured by Cornboch Alpha was ./786 that it indicates high reliability. Also. To test hypotheses, the Structural Equation Modeling was utilized, the results showed that in %95 Sig. all of the Five main hypotheses including economic Factors, cultural Factors, infrastructural Factors, governmental Factors, and general conditions have a statistically significant effect on health tourism.