Emerging Trends Of Medical Tourism

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The hospitality industry or the lodging industry is one of the most major service oriented industries in the world, inhabiting a noteworthy stand in the global economy. This self-sustaining industry has been successful in creating more than 258 million jobs across the world and contributing to around 9.1% of the world GDP. The figure would touch 296 million in 2019 according to the expectations of UNWTO. Presently, the industry has gained a worldwide economic segment having a direct and indirect impacts on the world economy. The rapid growth of this industry is being experienced by various countries including India. The hospitality sector of India is growing at a fast rate and referred as one of the most beneficial enterprise in terms of profit and contribution to the economy through foreign exchange. Hotels are a critical part of the industry and play their part in providing services and

In contrary, health and wellness tourism is now had been immerging to the world wide and it is an international trend set by the health travellers who seeking to enhance their well being through their travel experiences. Health tourism refers to an activity by health facilities that used the natural resources, such as mineral water or climate in order to give the health services. Health tourism also is defined by Goodrich and Goodrich (1987) as an attempt on the tourist facility to attract tourists by promoting and providing its health-care services and facilities. Besides, wellness travellers are a person who seeks a wellness travel experience, which is generally healthy to

Our project is based on the hotel industry, which is divided into eight strategic groups in India. These contain ‘five-star deluxe’, ‘five-star’, ‘four-star’, ‘three-star’, ‘two-star’, ‘one-star’, ‘heritage’ and ‘to be classified’ (Appendix Table 1). The major competition is in the ‘two-star’ and ‘three-star’ hotel market. This is one of the reasons why we are looking to position ourselves in the ‘five-star’ and ‘five-star deluxe’ market. Our competition is comprised of hotel chains such as Indian Hotels Company Limited (The Taj Group), EIH Limited (The Oberoi Group), ITC Hotels Limited (The ITC Welcome Group) and public sector chains including Indian Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) and Hotel Corporation of India (HCI) (A Report on Indian Tourism and Hotel Industry). Privately owned hotel chains pose the greatest

The aim of this report was to analysis Oman as Tourist Destinations by drawing a comparison between Oman and UAE and evaluating its current strategies to promote tourism in Oman. While comparing tourism in these tow countries it was important to consider the hotels, weather, culture, hospitality, availability of conducted tours and health service on each country.

Imagine a person having a medical condition that required treatment from a doctor. If a medically ill person had the option to receive treatment in a hospital in the United States or a hospital in another country on the beach, I am sure most people would choose treatment at the hospital on the beach. For centuries people have not only traveled for sunnier climates and relaxation, people also traveled because they wanted a cure for their medical conditions.The ancient greeks and Egyptians traveled to the Mediterranean to take advantage of the healing hot springs. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Americans and Europeans would travel to different spas in the hopes of curing tuberculosis and other deadly diseases (Stolley and Watson 1). Although the idea of patients traveling for health care is not a new idea, the name associated with it, medical tourism, is. Medical tourism is a new global economy in which patients travel to a foreign country to get health care (Stolley and Watson 1). To many people, traveling to another country for health care seems unnecessary and dangerous. However, there are numerous benefits to medical tourism. Medical tourism is all about patients getting the best medical care at the lowest cost. Medical tourism offers patients health care at a lower cost, the opportunity to have experimental procedures done that are not offered in the United States, and shorter wait times for procedures.

Medical tourism is trending as time goes on and as the population increase throughout the world. Medical tourism is a concept where individuals from their native countries visit foreign countries to receive the medical attention they need that is not available in their native country (CDC, 2016). This is further divided into outbound and inbound, inbound refers to the patients coming to the country and outbound refers to the individuals leaving the country (Horowitz et al, 2007). First world countries tend to hold most medical tourism out of all the other countries due to the perception of better medical care but it comes at a very high cost thus developing countries are building state of the art medical facilities to attract the attention of international patients. Countries such as Canada, USA, Singapore, Dubai etc. rake in most of the medical tourism in the world (Franzblau et al, 2013). However with developing countries making power plays, synergistic factors regarding medical tourism are changing at a very fast pace, some factors include low-cost treatment, quicker surgical periods, a boost in the economy, increase hospital revenue and enhance efficiency with fewer regulations (Pashley H.S, 2012). Conversely, some tensions that arise with medical tourism are the possibility of illegal procedures, consumerism of health care, lack of medical records, and Black market organ (Pashley H.S, 2012). Canada plays a very crucial part in medical tourism, both positive and negative; hence, this stakeholder analysis will focus on Patients, Medical Facilities and Medical Tourism Operators that play a major role in the success of medical tourism.

Hospitality and Tourism (H&T) industry play a significant role in the global economy due to many countries are increasing open up their borders to join the wave of global integration and the development of the hospitality and tourism industry has become a source of substantial foreign exchange revenues for the economies (Giap, Gopalan, & Ye, 2016). Hospitality and Tourism industry is a vast group of businesses that provide services to customers. By proving this kind of service, hospitality and tourism industry should focused on the satisfaction of customers and also providing the specific experiences for customers. Thus, hospitality and tourism industry is unique because it relies heavily on the discretionary income and free time.

Transplant tourism is a new sector of the overall tourism industry. It focuses on an individual’s ability to travel to a place where they have no permanent residence in order to receive medical services, specifically organ transplants. This paper will seek to give some of that foundational knowledge and explore those ethical and moral considerations to further explain the ways in which this field is growing and how/why so many more Canadians appear to be in support of it.

The abstraction of lodging industry in India is quite old, many people use to travel for religious places or for different business purpose, India has been known for its hospitality , that’s why India is main tourist attraction for foreign tourists. In ancient times when people travels from one place

Stephano and Fetscherin (2016) categorized factors in “push and pull” model to explain economical part of health tourism:

Generally, medical tourism refers to the act of people travelling overseas to an under-developed country to obtain medical, cosmetic, or dental treatment. One main reason why medical tourism is becoming more popular is because not everybody has health insurance, and if they do have health insurance, the insurance company will most likely not cover the cost of the whole treatment, leaving patients in great debt. This is why people who cannot afford healthcare, choose to travel abroad as it is cheaper. The savings range is between 30% and 80% of the cost that you would normally pay in the USA (medical tourism benefits and advantages 2). These low cost procedures are attracting more and more people that we need to take a closer look regarding their health. I will be discussing the advantages/disadvantages for both wealthy and less wealthy countries, the quality of treatment given, and the lack of information and awareness given to people.

In this paper, I will evaluate Hallyu in regards to its effect on medical tourism. However, I will first define the terms in order to give a clearer picture of what is Hallyu and which medical tourism I am referring too. Hallyu is defined as the growing popularity of Korean-based products that include drama, film, and pop music (Kim). It is also used to describe the fast spreading popularity of Korean culture like food, clothing, and housing. Recently, Hallyu or Korean Wave has not just swept over Asia, but also Middle East, Africa, and America. Out of all sector, medical tourism is one of the biggest areas that received big impacts from Hallyu. Medical tourism is defined as the process of travelling outside residency country

Health tourism is a boon to any country as it gets revenue and foreign exchange