What is Medical Tourism?

Medical tourism (or health tourism) is a relatively new direction of tourism practice in the world. Medical tourism cannot be considered as a branch of tourism in general. This is a separate service area for people with extensive health problems. The inability to receive appropriate health services accelerated the development of health tourism and enabled patients to seek diagnosis and treatment alternatives abroad.

The desire to become a patient of a foreign health institution may be related to various reasons, such as the poor state of medicine in the patient's home country, lack of confidence in the skills of local doctors, unsuccessful previous diagnostic tests and treatment, and a desire to fail. According to official data, the number of people who go abroad due to health problems increases by 20 percent every year. It should be noted that these statistical data generally cover world medical tourism, regardless of the level of medical service in a patient's home country.