Applying Linguistic VIKOR and Entropy to Evaluate Competitive Ability of Medical Tourism in Taiwan

Abstract

Tourism is a high profit and low-cost industry. Medical tourism is one kind of tourism type. This kind of tourism type is high threshold and can bring more profit for government. However, a few of literatures research about competitive ability of medical tourism. This study collects relative literature and interview some expert to design the criteria to evaluate competitive ability of medical tourism. And then, linguistic VIKOR and Entropy are used to evaluate competitive ability of medical tourism among China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea.