Medical tourism (also called medical travel, health tourism or global healthcare) is a term initially coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of traveling across international borders to obtain health care. It also refers pejoratively to the practice of healthcare providers traveling internationally to deliver healthcare[1][2].
Medical tourism, also called medical travel, health tourism or global health care, is the process of traveling to another country to receive quality health care from highly skilled physicians and surgeons at a fraction of the cost available in the United States, Canada, and the U. K.
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Travel and Tourism has become a popular global activity for leisure. 2007 had seen over 903 million international tourist arrivals. However, due to economic crisis of 2008, growth in international tourism arrivals worldwide fell to 2% during the boreal summer, while growth from January to April saw an average 5.7% compared to its 2007 level.
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