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| The Emerging of Health Tourism Policy and Practices in Indonesia: An Integrated Literature Review
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Hilman A. Halim, Neneng W. Isnawati, Bonti, Tomi Setiawan
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Abstract:
This research aims to describe and analyze tourism policy in the context of alternative tourism, especially health tourism in Indonesia. Although health tourism policy is well known in America and Europe, it is a relatively new thing to do in Indonesia and is one of the priorities in tourism policy. For this reason, research is needed on the current implementation of the health tourism policy in Indonesia. This research uses a qualitative method with an Integrated Literature Review (ILR) approach by analyzing various journals that discuss implementing health tourism policies in Indonesia. The research methods used literature studies from journals in the Google Scholar database and were selected based on the most relevant journal content. One of the findings of this study shows that the implementation of health tourism policies in Indonesia has received important attention since 2012 and began to be developed seriously in 2017 between the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy. Yogyakarta is one of the provinces that has potential in the development of health tourism. Another thing that is discussed in the context of health tourism policy in Indonesia is the health tourism destination of oxygen-rich islands. These clean air conditions high oxygen levels and tourism make the Sumenep Regency Government make Gili Iyang Island a health tourism object. In conclusion, implementing the health tourism policy has a positive impact as alternative tourism can generate economic growth and sustainable development in the community.
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