avenues in health tourism that the globalization has brought with it. It has become imperative for India to be sensitive to … future of emerging health tourism in India. It then takes into account two ‘benchmark' case studies, Kerala and Victoria …'s Spa industry, the analysis of which is aimed to help devise strategies for the Indian health tourism to grow and exploit …

,000 in the U.S. runs about $1,250 in South Africa. Why put up with expensive, run-of-the-mill health care at home when you … can be treated just as well abroad? Health care generates some USD 3 trillion per year while, in 2009 alone, tourism … long distances hoping to restore their health for millennia. What is new is that, in spite of the existence of excellent …

-operative care, confidentiality, and hospital reputation, depended on a consumer's health status. This study can help medical tourism … agents to refine their marketing strategies and the employers and insurance companies to better design appropriate economic …

correlation between medical tourism and the expansion of private, technology-intensive health care in LMICs, which has largely … remained out of reach for the majority of the local patients. In light of this health care inequity between local residents and …

witnessed huge investment in public and private medical services, and health infrastructure development. This chapter is an …