Novosibirsk as a center of regional medical tourism: potential and implementation aspects

Author(s):  N.V. Goroshko, candidate of Sciences, associate Professor, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russia, goroshko1@mail.ru

E.K. Emelyanova, candidate of Sciences, associate Professor, State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology “Vector”, Koltsovo, Russia, emelen1@yandex.ru

N.G. Nikiforova, Dr., Prof., Novosibirsk State Medical University, Novosibirsk, Russia

Issue:  Volume 41, № 4

Rubric:  Preventive Medicine

Annotation:  This paper examines the current state of regional medical tourism market. The impact of medical tourism on Novosibirsk as regional centre as well as conditions of development and limiting factors are revealed. Factors of causing the development of medical tourism in Novosibirsk are the status of city as regional center, and as the "capital of Siberia", the international airport and large transport and interchange railway junctions. Moreover, numerous research institutes of medical and biological profiles entering into structure of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance Centers of medical orientation form a powerful network of healthcare institutions. Geographical concentration of scientific, educational and industrial enterprises and institutions led to creation and functioning of Academpark, Biotechnology park, Medical Industrial park, Medical Technology park. Formation of medical infrastructure and support of medical tourism in the region were also facilitated by establishing of the Novosibirsk Region State Institution "Center for Regional Development" under the guide of Ministry of Economic Development of the Novosibirsk Region. On basis of this Ministry have been operating the Center for Cluster Development and the Tourist Information Center. Currently, priority direction of region economic development is in functioning of several specialized innovation clusters in the field of medicine (Regional Medical Cluster "Sibirsky", Balneological Cluster "Ozerny", Research and Production Cluster "Siberian Naukopolis", Cluster of Information and Biopharmaceutical Technologies, Industrial Medicinal Technology Cluster)

Keywords:  medicine and health care, medical services, health tourism, medical tourism, regional tourist center, medical cluster

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