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Tourism over the years has cropped up to be the world‘s largest and fastest growing industry. It is a major phenomenon of the modern society. Medical tourism is the travel of people to a place other than where they normally reside for the purpose of obtaining medical treatment in that country. Traditionally, people would travel from less-developed countries to major medical centers in highly developed countries for medical treatment that was unavailable in their own communities. The recent trend is for people to travel from developed countries to third world countries for medical treatments because of cost consideration, though the traditional pattern still continues. Health tourism is a wider term for travels that focus on medical treatments and the utilization of healthcare services. It spans a wide field of health-oriented tourism ranging from preventive and health-conductive to rehabilitation and curative forms of travel; the latter being commonly referred to as Medical tourism. India is a leading player in the medical tourism/healthcare facilitation industry. It is increasingly emerging as the destination of choice for a wide range of medical procedures. This article examines the emerging of medical tourism in India and what challenges it’s faced in the context of globalization. How these could be overcome by enhancing the facilities of medical tourism.
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