The purpose of this study is to undertake a bibliometric analysis of graduate theses on health tourism in Turkey between the years of 1988-2017. Timespan based on the analysis is divided into four periods (up to 1990, 1991-2000, 2001-2010, 2011-2017). The study offers a comparison analysis between the periods and determines the possible changes. For this purpose, graduate theses were searched by using keywords health tourism, medical tourism, thermal tourism, disabled tourism and elderly tourism in the database of Council of Higher Education National Thesis Center. As a result, 139 master’s and 29 doctoral theses were examined according to such parameters as the type of thesis, year submitted, the university and institute submitted, main subject areas, research method employd, and permission status. Some of the important findings are as follows: Dokuz Eylül University (13) sits on the first place in terms of the number of thesis. Thermal tourism is the mostly studied subject (68 master’s and 13 doctoral theses). The institutes are represented mostly by social sciences (137). The department of business administration (52) is followed by the department of tourism management (50).
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | October 23, 2019 |
Published in Issue | Year 2019 Volume: 30 Issue: 2 - Prof.Dr. Hasan Olalı Turizm Sempozyumu Özel Sayısı |