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The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of service quality components such as trust, care, image, hospital environment perceived by medical tourists on the components of customer loyalty, revisit intention and recommendation intentions, via customer satisfaction. In order to achieve the purpose of this study we conducted the survey focused on the medical tourists from China who had used the medical institutions in Korea as medical tourist. To figure out the structural relationship among the variables for this study, a structural equation model was performed with a total o f 321 sample data. The findings of this study suggested that first, core service of hospital is most important to medical tourist who wanted to take medical care as primary purpose of their medical travel. Second, customer satisfaction had significantly positive effects on the components of customer loyalty which are revisit intention and recommendation intention to others. Finally, this study provides theoretical and managerial implications of findings and suggests directions of future research.