Medical tourism: Chinese maternity tourism to Hong Kong

Ka Ming Cheng

Current Issues in Tourism, 2016, vol. 19, issue 14, 1479-1486

Abstract: This paper provides a quantitative approach to investigate the determinants of Chinese maternity tourism (birth tourism) to Hong Kong with an Autoregressive Distribution Lag (ARDL) cointegration methodology with bounds testing of Pesaran, Shin, and Smith (2001) over the period from 1991 to 2011. Specifically, this paper examines the joint effects of the right of abode of Chinese babies born in Hong Kong and the launch of Individual Visit Scheme for Mainland Chinese tourists on maternity tourism to Hong Kong. Empirical results show that persistent growth in income and appreciation of the Chinese yuan lead to a higher demand for maternity tourism.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2015.1042359

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