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.
Medical tourism is one of the largest sectors and it is growing continuously. It is attracting various small, medium, and large industries because it will automatically benefit medical tourism sector and related organizations as well. […]
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According to Medical Tourism Association (MTA), nearly 2 million US citizens would be traveling abroad to undergo various medical procedures, ranging from bypass surgeries to facelifts. This number is expected to increase by 35% by
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Medical tourism is growing despite the economic slowdown seen in many part of the world. Asian countries have been the major players who have helped the industry grow with their excellent medical infrastructure and certified
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Many people prefer medical tourism nowadays, since it means a lot of cost saving with treatment quality, which is at par with anything available in their own country. Medical tourism not only provides solution for
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Medical Tourism is one of the fastest growing trends in today’s world. People are just not ready to risk their lives because of not so good medical facilities in their own country. Another reason is
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The Dubai Health Authority recently held a meeting with private sector hospitals. The main motive of the meeting was to discuss the strategy to strengthen medical tourism initiative for Dubai. It includes steps to provide
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As the flow of cross border patient increases with medical tourism, more and more countries entering the market as medical tourism destinations would benefit from the foreign exchange income. Medical tourism has also led to
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Medical tourism is on the rise these days with more patients traveling to overseas destinations for treatment and more countries joining the market as emerging medical tourism destinations. Of late, the concept of healthcare clusters
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