Abstract

The process of medical tourism is defined as the various steps involved in the facilitation of medical treatment for the overseas patients. This process stretches from point of first contact or initial patient acquisition to follow up treatment and consultation on completion of a treatment plan. The medical tourism process comprises of the various stages of travelling for medical and healthcare-based activities that are all handled by a good and reliable medical tourism facilitator. The study aims and intends to comprehend what precisely do patients need to do to get treatment in nations with a less expensive and subjective therapeutic framework and whether restorative visitor organizations or facilitators are assuming a colossal job in this procedure or that there may be sure zones in which they may need to improve whether it be in the presentation of new innovation based systems or in the visa and travel record application process or in certain different regions where patients need help with request to be treated in the most ideal way. The study is undertaken by collecting the primary data of medical tourists/patients destined for treatment in India for a period of 1 year (2016-2017).

Highlights

  • Medical Tourism can be defined as, individuals going abroad, to acquire various rejuvenations or treatments

  • Since 1983, being fit and aware of healthy lifestyle has been buyers' top need and, as indicated by the Future Foundation's Changing Lives Survey, this trend will keep on being a trend later, travelling abroad for medical advantages is certainly not an ongoing idea, it has been increasing more focus and media enthusiasm for the most recent decades

  • "Domestic Medical Tourism" is the place individuals of the same nation travel to another city, area or state to get therapeutic, dental procedures, while simultaneously getting equivalent or more prominent consideration than they would have in their very own home town, and are going for restorative consideration

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

Medical Tourism can be defined as, individuals going abroad, to acquire various rejuvenations or treatments. Since 1983, being fit and aware of healthy lifestyle has been buyers' top need and, as indicated by the Future Foundation's Changing Lives Survey, this trend will keep on being a trend later, travelling abroad for medical advantages is certainly not an ongoing idea, it has been increasing more focus and media enthusiasm for the most recent decades This insistent influences along with the dependability and likeness of information, nature of distributed research, reports, measurements and articles have been profound. In contrast to a significant number of its rivals in medicinal the travel industry, India likewise has the innovative modernity and foundation to keep up its market specialty, and Indian pharmaceuticals meet the stringent prerequisites of the U.S Nourishment and Drug Administration. Popular medical travel worldwide destinations include India, Canada, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Israel, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Turkey

OBJECTIVES
MODEL OF MEDICAL TOURISM
RESEARCH DESIGN
DATA COLLECTION METHODS
Nationality of The Respondents
DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
Limitations
Findings
VIII. CONCLUSIONS
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