What is medical tourism ? Explain the scope of medical services for overseas patients in India.

When medical treatment is combined with international tourism activity, It is known as medical tourism.

Scope of medical services for overseas patients in India:

(i)About 55,000 patients from U.S.A visited India in 2005 for treatment.

(ii)India has emerged as the leading country of medical tourism in the world.

(iii)World class hospitals located in metropolitan cities of India cater to patients all over the world.

(iv)Medical tourism brings abundant benefits to developing countries like India. 

The components:

(i) Low-order services, such as grocery shops and laundries, are more common and widespread than high-order services or more specialised ones like those of accountants, consultants and physicians.

(ii) Services are provided to individual consumers who can afford to pay for them. The gardener, the launderers and the barber do primarily physical labour.

(iii) Teacher, lawyers, physicians, musicians and others perform mental labour

(iv) Making and maintaining highways and bridges, maintaining firefighting departments and supplying or supervising education and customer care are among the important services most often supervised or performed by governments or companies.

(v) Personal services are made available to the people to facilitate their work in daily life. The workers migrate from rural areas in search of employment and are unskilled. They are employed in domestic services as housekeepers, cooks, and gardeners.

Tourism is travel undertaken for recreation and other purposes.

Tourist Attractions:

Climate: Most people from colder regions expect to have warm, sunny weather for beach holidays. This is one of the main reasons for the importance of tourism in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean lands.

Tertiary

Quaternary activities center around research, development and may be seen as an advanced form of services involving specialised knowledge and technical skills.