Advantages and disadvantages of tourism Nowadays many people travel around the world. They get new experience‚ emotions‚ relaxation… But is it that good? In some cases a trip can be even dangerous. If it is‚ is the new experience worth going for a trip? One major disadvantage of tourism is that it is dangerous. There are many animals and deceases which are not common for our country‚ and we do not know about their existence and symptoms. When people get back they don’t pay attention to
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Medical Tourism and also to get an overview of the healthcare industry in India. The survey also aims at finding out the performance of various hospitals in the region based on certain parameters and criteria’s to judge the market viability of medical tourism. But in order to full appreciate the survey one needs to understand the term Medical Tourism ad the current Indian and Global scenario of Medical tourism and its practices in India. Medical Tourism (also called medical travel‚ health tourism
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Health Tourism: Medical tourism (also called medical travel‚ health tourism or global health care) 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. Such services typically include elective procedures as well as complex specialized surgeries such as joint replacement (knee/hip)‚ cardiac surgery‚ dental surgery‚ and cosmetic surgeries. However‚ virtually every type of health
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A Report on MEDICAL TOURISM A Services Marketing Assignment The Task: We‚ Group no. 2‚ had been allotted “HEALTH” as our sector to be worked upon. We for ease of understanding and division and allocation of work‚ sat down together as a team‚ and identified certain areas which we needed to cover and hence‚ each sub sector that was decided to be covered was allocated to each member of the group. My sub-Sector: I was allotted “MEDICAL TOURISM” as my sub sector‚ which I needed to research
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What is Medical Tourism ? Medical tourism can be broadly defined as provision of ’cost effective’ private medical care in collaboration with the tourism industry for patients needing surgical and other forms of specialized treatment. This process is being facilitated by the corporate sector involved in medical care as well as the tourism industry - both private and public. Medical or Health tourism has become a common form of vacationing‚ and covers a broad spectrum of medical services. It mixes
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1.1 INTRODUCTION Tourism is a travel for recreational‚ leisure or business purpose. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people travelling from one place to another and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes. The importance of tourism‚ as an instrument of economic development and employment generation‚ particularly in remote and backward areas‚ has been well recognized the world over. It
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HOW CAN INDIA MARKET ITSELF TO REMAIN POPULAR AS A DESTINATION FOR MEDICAL TOURISM Submitted by: M V SOUMYA ABSTRACT India is becoming one of the favourite destinations for Medical tourism globally. Indian medical tourism is drawing the attention of foreigners with its core competencies. India offers a wide array of services in this field right from providing holistic healthcare services to cultural warmth. It would require a strong support from the Government and
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CHAPTER .1 Introduction Medical tourism in India After the silicon rush India is now considered as the golden spot for treating patients mostly from the developed countries and Far East for ailments and procedures of relatively high cost and complexity. India is also aggressively promoting medical tourism in the current years -and slowly now it is moving into a new area of "medical outsourcing‚" where subcontractors provide services to the overburdened medical care systems in western countries
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TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA --- Atul Sinha * Tourism development in India has passed through many phases. At Government level the development of tourist facilities was taken up in a planned manner in 1956 coinciding with the Second Five Year Plan. The approach has evolved from isolated planning of single unit facilities in the Second and Third Five Year Plans. The Sixth Plan marked the beginning of a new era when tourism began to be considered a major instrument for social integration and
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Role of Tourism in India Tourism is travel for recreational‚ leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four (24) hours and not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited.I want to do this! What’s This? Among the various service industries‚ tourism in India
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