Volume : VIII, Issue : IX, September - 2018

First world service at the third world cost–A literature review on promoting medical tourist destination in India

Dr. Jomon Lonappan

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Medical tourism, where patients travel overseas for operations, has grown rapidly in the past decade, especially for cosmetic surgery. High costs and long waiting lists at home, new technology and skills in destination countries alongside reduced transport costs and Internet marketing have all played a role. Several Asian countries are dominant, in Medical Tourism. In Asian countries India is one of the dominant spot. Conventional tourism has been a by–product of this growth, despite its tourist packaging, and overall benefits to the travel industry have been considerable. The rise of medical tourism emphasizes the privatization of health care, the growing dependence on technology, uneven access to health resources and the accelerated economicglobalizationof both health care and tourism in India.

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Dr. Jomon Lonappan, First world service at the third world cost–A literature review on promoting medical tourist destination in India, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-9 | September-2018

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