Medical tourism is a blend of tourism and healthcare as it is all about traveling beyond your national boundaries in order to seek medical treatment. The main motive of medical tourism is to save money on treatments and get the benefits of excellent medical facilities. Medical tourism includes health tourism, wellness tourism, dental, tourism, and spa tourism.
Wellness tourism is broader term in medical tourism, which emphasizes on enhancing the health conditions through alternative, traditional and complimentary healthcare services. Dental tourism is also an integral part of medical tourism, which refers to travelling overseas in order to achieve and maintain the dental health. Spa tourism aims to promote general healthcare and relaxation. It is based on the traditional healing of water as people move to natural hot water springs for relaxation and healing. Further, alternative wellness tourism includes traditional methods of curing and healing. Nowadays, many countries offering traditional methods of healing and curing chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease, metal disorders, joint pain, trauma, and other related problems. Countries like India and Singapore offer ayurveda, yoga and other traditional therapies to their guests in order to make them feel relax and promote health and wellbeing.
Murcia, Spain, hosted the landmark medical tourism and wellness event EMTW 2024, which unveiled magnificent opportunities addressing emerging challenges. Among the highlights of EMTW 2024 was Dr Prem Jagyasi’s insightful masterclass with innovative strategies and […]
Cruise ship medical tourism is an evolving trend offering a pleasurable mix of pampering cruise vacations and medical and wellness treatments. Even if one has never personally been on a cruise, the industry is famous
Human perception plays a big role in choosing medical tourism packages with a specific price tag. Most medical tourism packages often come with alluring components and competitive prices, yet they fail to attract customers. Most
Crossing borders for quality healthcare might be a better option but navigating cultural issues in medical tourism is critical to creating a seamless and pleasant patient experience. Providers be it facilitators or facilities or agencies,
Medical tourism generally refers to patients visiting another country for the treatment of their medical conditions as the same treatment within their home country would cost them a lot more. Additionally, it may be the
Healthcare globalization has brought up several ethical issues surrounding the practice. The fact that people travel from their home country to a medical tourism destination to avail certain treatments that are illegal or unavailable at home brings
The medical tourism industry is flourishing day by day and more patients are travelling to other countries to obtain affordable and high quality medical treatment. Before you board on your medical journey, you should consider
Medical tourism now-a-days has spread all over the world as the need of availing medical facilities across the borders has increased significantly. With the increase in health care costs in the developed countries, the middle class
NEW PROJECTS, NEW DESTINATIONS, STEP FORWARD… After successfully completed and having the great results from the 2nd edition of AHT Forum, we are very pleased to inform you on the preparations and the ongoing activities
The global medical tourism is set to receive an investment boost in the 2nd Adriatic Health and Tourism Investment Forum to be held from 10th -12th October’18 in Zagreb, Croatia. The summit, one of its kind,
