Question.
Name the fast emerging countries of medical tourism in the world.
(Class 12 geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter-7. Tertiary and Quaternary Activities )
Answer.
When medical treatment is combined with international tourism activity, it is commonly referred to as medical tourism.
Most of the workers working in the medical tourism industries are part of tertiary services and medical tourism is a tertiary activity.
The fastest growing countries for medical tourism in the world are India, Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia.
About 55,000 patients from the US alone came to India for treatment in 2005.
Around 5 lakh medical tourists visited India in the year 2017 from various countries like the USA, Australia, Canada, China, Russia, and United Kingdom.
Gurugram and Chennai are known as the health capital of India.
India is known for providing world-class medical facilities in Ayurvedic, Yoga, Siddha, and Naturopathy.
World-class hospitals are available in the metropolitan cities of India that can treat patients from all over the world.
India also provides services like outsourcing medical testing and data interpretation.
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