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Expanding health tourism in Indonesia: prospective sharia salons and spas

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  • BAFADHAL ANIESA SAMIRA

    (Faculty of Administrative Science, University of Brawijaya)

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Currently, health issues have grown rapidly into Health Tourism segment to strengthen Indonesia’s tourism. Ironically, the proliferation of salon and spa business as well as other forms of health tourism business is considered to cause negative effects in the form of destructive cultural penetration of foreign tourists. This study aimed to analyze the prospects of sharia salons and spas in safeguarding the health tourism in Indonesia. Furthermore, we examine the mix variables of sharia marketing as a marketing stimulus to encourage Muslim tourists in making the decision to visit and re-visit as well as their interest in the sharia salons and spas. This explanatory study uses the paradigm of quantitative research involved 150 respondents of Muslim tourists and domestic visitors of sharia salons and spas in Malang, Indonesia. The results of this study indicate that stimulus of sharia marketing is needed to develop tourist visits, especially Muslim travelers in health tourism destination of sharia salons and spas.

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  • Bafadhal Aniesa Samira, 2017. "Expanding health tourism in Indonesia: prospective sharia salons and spas," Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, CyberLeninka;Редакция журнала Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, vol. 61(1), pages 112-118.
  • Handle: RePEc:scn:031261:16967539
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