Health tourism: webpages and translation analysis

Abstract

In the global world in which we live, the mobility of people from one country to another is increasing. The reasons that favor this movement are usually a holiday, labor or because certain services are better in other countries due to quality, price, etc., among others. One of the services that are increasingly sought are those related to health; therefore, several countries have increased their efforts to have a more international health policy and try to position themselves as health destinations. Spain meets the best conditions to become an international power of health tourism. For this, one of the first measures that health services must comply with is their visibility in the international market, that is, that their web pages and services are available globally in other languages. In the present work, we intend to review the web pages of the leading providers of health services in Spain and analyze the translations and the problems that they had, where appropriate.