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Medical Tourism in India:Position and Statistic


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1 Chandragupta Institute of Management Patna (CIMP), Patna, Bihar, India
2 Department of Business Studies, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India

Medical tourism (also called medical travel, health tourism or global healthcare) is a term initially coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of travelling across international borders to obtain health care. Medical tourism is one of the fastest growing sub-sectors of the Indian tourism industry. Travelling to other countries to obtain medical, dental, surgical and other treatment is called medical tourism. Countries that actively promote medical tourism do so for self-serving reasons. Investing in the medical industry is a way to increase GDP, upgrade services, generate foreign exchange and create a more favorable balance-of-trade situation, and boost tourism. Other more subtle benefits include stemming a brain drain of health professionals and buying international goodwill. Thus, this conceptual study is focusing on the issues, challenges, opportunities, stakeholders, advantages, disadvantages and many other aspects of Medical Tourism, in detail.

Extensive review of existing literature was done to highlight the research findings and their importance and to present the statistical data in order to set a base for future research study. This study was done to conceptually structure the existing researches. It may help researchers to develop a theoretical model for future studies.


Keywords

Medical Tourism, Healthcare, Value Proposition, Positioning Programmes, Inter-Bound Tourism, Intra-Bound Tourism.
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Authors

Jyoti Verma
Chandragupta Institute of Management Patna (CIMP), Patna, Bihar, India
Shrabani Balaram Bhattacharjee
Department of Business Studies, Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India

Abstract


Medical tourism (also called medical travel, health tourism or global healthcare) is a term initially coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of travelling across international borders to obtain health care. Medical tourism is one of the fastest growing sub-sectors of the Indian tourism industry. Travelling to other countries to obtain medical, dental, surgical and other treatment is called medical tourism. Countries that actively promote medical tourism do so for self-serving reasons. Investing in the medical industry is a way to increase GDP, upgrade services, generate foreign exchange and create a more favorable balance-of-trade situation, and boost tourism. Other more subtle benefits include stemming a brain drain of health professionals and buying international goodwill. Thus, this conceptual study is focusing on the issues, challenges, opportunities, stakeholders, advantages, disadvantages and many other aspects of Medical Tourism, in detail.

Extensive review of existing literature was done to highlight the research findings and their importance and to present the statistical data in order to set a base for future research study. This study was done to conceptually structure the existing researches. It may help researchers to develop a theoretical model for future studies.


Keywords


Medical Tourism, Healthcare, Value Proposition, Positioning Programmes, Inter-Bound Tourism, Intra-Bound Tourism.

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