Essays on Medical Tourism

Medical tourism, where patients travel to other countries for medical assistance and surgeries, has grown at a high rate in the past decade, especially for cosmetic surgery. Expensive Procedures, the high cost of medicines and long waiting lists at their own countries, emerging technologies, and...

With SLSFTA, Singapore has opportunity to invest directly on healthcare sector in Sri Lanka under Mode 03 of international service trade. Sri Lanka healthcare hospital industry is one of the rapidly growing industries and is continuously faced by new issues and challenges. In order to...

Abstract Medical tourism is becoming a popular option for tourists across the globe. It encompasses biomedical procedures, combined with travel and tourism. The term medical tourism has been coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly growing practice of travelling across...

As early as 1987, many authors have associated the terminology ‘cosmetic surgery tourism’ under the umbrella of medical, health and wellbeing tourism. Since then, it has been known as ‘aesthetic tourism’, ‘plastic surgery tourism’, ‘surgery tourism’ and ‘surgery abroad’ by Marck, et al (2010), Melendez...

Abstract Medical tourism has become one of the ‘market niches’ that is increasingly being discussed in the context of growing potential, i.e. the growth rate of the number of passengers who seeking health services outside the borders of their own country. Today’s medical tourism is...