Deep Shikha and Vidisha Vallabh*
Volume3-Issue2
Dates: Received: 2022-02-16 | Accepted: 2022-02-19 | Published: 2022-02-22
Pages: 179-180
Abstract
Transnational medical travel, widely quoted as medical combines health care with leisure travel. Asia-Pacific is the leading contributor to the global market revenue in medical tourism and the global turnover is expected cross over USD 31.21 billion by 2026. With protracted and expensive visa and medical services patients seek sophisticated but inexpensive healthcare unavailable in their country. These issues are capitalized by many developing and developed countries like Thailand, India, Malaysia and Singapore by the virtue of their marked cost differentials, economical airfare, advanced medical care, favourable health care infrastructures, destination competitiveness, service quality, travel and entertainment facilities, making them a popular medical destination.
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Deep S, Vidisha V. Medical Tourism. J Biomed Res Environ Sci. 2022 Feb 22; 3(2): 179-180. doi: 10.37871/jbres1418, Article ID: JBRES1418, Available at: https://www.jelsciences.com/articles/jbres1418.pdf
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