Multilingual Online Communications in Corporate Websites: Cases of Romanian Dental Practices and Their Application to Health Tourism

Felicia Constantin () and Androniki Kavoura ()
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Felicia Constantin: University of Oradea
Androniki Kavoura: Technological Educational Institute of Athens

A chapter in Tourism and Culture in the Age of Innovation, 2016, pp 185-196 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Health is for the modern citizen an ongoing and almost obsessive concern. The process of globalization, which dissolved physical boundaries and allowed the mobility of people, favored the development of health tourism which has seen a real boom and became a social and economic phenomenon that is extremely interesting. In this context, dental care tourism begins to solidify in countries like Romania, because of its competitive price and the quality of services. Therefore, the communication in this environment has to adapt by its new forms, with the demands of potential foreign patients and become an international communication. The limited research in the dental field associated with the provision of online communication in order to reach potential customers offers ground to this exploratory research. This study employs content analysis to explore rated websites of dental practices of the cross-border region of Romania. Findings reveal features that ensure the informative function but which are able to increase the visibility of the dental practices across national borders through multilingual online communication.

Keywords: Health tourism; Dental websites; Multilingual online communication; Romania (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M3 M37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27528-4_13

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