14^th European Epidemiology and Public Health Congress

Medical Tourism

Medical tourism is a combination of healthcare and tourism. Medical tourism is increasing day by day internationally as well as domestically.  People travel to foreign countries to get a medical treatment. Due to this medical tourism is facing several problems and challenges, which are technological, language barriers etc. This is an emerging idea for the travel and tourism industry. In early days people used to travel from one country to another, one destination to another for medical treatment like a hot spring bath, medical therapies.  But the current time has changed; now people travel due to many reasons like as to get affordable best medical treatment in the developing country.