TURISMO MÉDICO-HOSPITALAR

uma proposta de roteirização para acompanhantes de pacientes em Campo Grande - MS

Abstract

Medical-hospital tourism is an expanding segment in Brazil arising from health tourism, one of the oldest in existence, and it involves the movement of people in search of better treatments and conditions of care and access to public health and/or private. Therefore, the general objective of this research was to analyze whether medical-hospital tourism can be promoted in Campo Grande – MS through a tourist itinerary for those accompanying patients from the interior of the state and for this purpose this tourist segment and its impacts were contextualized positive effects in the city, in addition to carrying out a survey of which tourist attractions offer activities open to the public, taking into account short distances to be covered. Thus, after analyzing the data obtained in a quantitative questionnaire, a gastronomic tourist itinerary was created as an offer to companions of patients from the interior to the state of Mato Grosso do Sul who are undergoing treatment in the capital as a way of promoting medical-hospital tourism and which It will be made available in public health care locations as well as delivered to public tourism bodies, namely the Municipal Department of Culture and Tourism of Campo Grande (SECTUR) and the Mato Grosso do Sul Tourism Foundation (FUNDTUR).