Babu P. George

Babu P. George, PhD, DBA, has more than fifteen years of business research experience focused on international tourism management. He has started taking research and consulting interest in medical tourism since early 2000’s. One of his specific expertise is in synergizing telemedicine with medical tourism. Currently, he is associate professor of management and coordinator of international programs at Fort Hays State University, USA. In the recent past, he served as professor of business research methods at Swiss Management Center University. In addition, he is a visiting professor at various higher education institutions around the world. He is the director of Center for Health Tourism, a nonprofit thinktank investigating health tourism futures. He has numerous peer reviewed and highly cited research publications in tourism and hospitality areas to his credit. He has authored or edited more than seven scholarly books. He is the editor of International Journal of Qualitative Research in Services and the book series Replicability in Social Sciences.

Publications

The Life Cycles of Destination Life Cycle Models: A Critical Comparison and Synthesis in the Context of Destinations in Asia
The Life Cycles of Destination Life Cycle Models: A Critical Comparison and Synthesis in the Context of Destinations in Asia
Sudipta Kiran Sarkar, Babu P. George. © 2020. 18 pages.
Product Life Cycle (PLC) has always been a hot topic in the tourism literature. Butler's Tourism Area Lifecycle model and Plog's destination life cycle model have both...
Legal and Economic Considerations Surrounding Reproductive Tourism: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Legal and Economic Considerations Surrounding Reproductive Tourism: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Anastasia Paraskou, Babu P. George. © 2018. 235 pages.
Overall, medical tourism has become a robust industry, due to fluctuating health costs in many developed countries. One of the most popular services experiencing a rise as a...
Emotionality, Reason, and Dark Tourism: Discussions Around the Sense of Death
Emotionality, Reason, and Dark Tourism: Discussions Around the Sense of Death
Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje, Babu P. George. © 2018. 25 pages.
The present chapter questions to what extent visitors in dark sites are really interested for heritage issues or understanding the roots of moral disasters as the specialized...
Animal Sexual Abuse and the Darkness of Touristic Immorality
Animal Sexual Abuse and the Darkness of Touristic Immorality
Thomas R. Panko, Babu P. George. © 2018. 15 pages.
Simply put, tourism is about travel and its associated services. Yet, beyond its glittery appearance, at least sometimes, these services contain elements of domination and...
The Life Cycles of Destination Life Cycle Models: A Critical Comparison and Synthesis in the Context of Destinations in Asia
The Life Cycles of Destination Life Cycle Models: A Critical Comparison and Synthesis in the Context of Destinations in Asia
Sudipta Kiran Sarkar, Babu P. George. © 2017. 18 pages.
Product Life Cycle (PLC) has always been a hot topic in the tourism literature. Butler's Tourism Area Lifecycle model and Plog's destination life cycle model have both...