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.
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