AMITY INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL

A Project Report on

Scope and Awareness about

Medical Tourism in India´
For the partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of Bachelor’s in
Business Administration (2014-2017)

Amity International business School, Noida.

Submitted To: Mr. Ashu Jain
Submitted By: Akhil Choudhary
BBA- international business
Batch- 2014-17
Semester- 5
Table of contents

S.NO CONTENTS

1) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

2) PREFACE

3) RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY

4) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

5) AN INTRODUCTION

6) MEDICAL TOURISM IN INDIA

7) SWOT ANALYSIS

8) WHAT IS INDIA OFFERING

9) SCOPE AND OPPORTUNITY

10) INDIA(S) FUTURE PROSPECTS

11) COST COMPARISION

12) MAJOR PLAYERS

13) MEDICAL PACKAGES

14) CONCLUSION

15) RECOMMENDATIONS

16) BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The beatitude, bliss and euphoria that accompany successful completion of any task
would not be complete without the expression of appreciation of simple
virtues to the people who made it possible. So, with reverence, veneration honor I
acknowledge all those whose guidance and encouragement has made successful in
winding up this. I take this opportunity to thank Ms. Pooja Dubey (Industry
guide) And Mr. Ashu jain (Faculty Guide).
For their support and encouragement, which helped me in the completion of this
report. I extend my gratitude and thankfulness to Amity International Business
School, Noida. I am also grateful to my family members and well-wishers for
providing me the continuous support to motivate me to successfully complete my
report.

Date: -
Submitted By: - Akhil Choudhary
Place: - Delhi
PREFACE

The underlying aim of the seminar on contemporary issue as an integral

part of BBA programme is to give presentation by the students on the issue. The
topic of my project report is Medical Tourism’. This report is all about the current
scenario where Medical Tourism is no doubt rapidly growing and attractive
sector. Factors that have led to the increasing popularity of medical travel
include the high cost of health care, long wait times for certain procedures,
the ease and affordability of international travel, and improvements in both
technology and standards of care in many countries This report covers the scope and
emerging trends of medical tourism along with its detailed description and SWOT
analysis in Indian context. This project includes my sincere efforts, and I affirm
the findings in this project are independent and original to the best of my
knowledge and belief. I sincerely hope that this report proves to be useful to the
organization and also to its readers.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research Objectives:
- To find out the satisfaction level of the patients in the multi-specialty
hospitals.

Macro Objectives:
- To find out the factors, why NRIs are attracted towards taking medical
treatments in India.

- To find out which kind of medical treatment is mostly preferred by the NRIs to
take in India.

Micro Objectives:
- To make aware the administration department of the particular hospitals
regarding acceptance of facilities and services provided by them to the patients.

Nature of Research:
- Research will be Descriptive and explorative in nature.

Research will be done mainly to understand the satisfaction level of the patients and
by this way can understands the competition and also need gaps so that better
services can be develop.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Medical tourism (additionally called therapeutic travel, wellbeing tourism

or worldwide social insurance) is a term at first instituted by travel
organizations and the broad communications to portray the quickly
developing routine of flying out crosswise over universal outskirts to get
human services. It additionally alludes derisively to the act of medicinal
services suppliers making a trip universally to convey social insurance
Medical tourism the procedure of leaving home' for medications and care
abroad or somewhere else locally is a developing marvel in the wellbeing.

Tourism: An Indian overview

Tourism is the biggest administration industry in India, with a commitment
of 6.23% to the national GDP and 8.78% of the aggregate job in India. India
witness' more than 5 million yearly remote traveler entries and 562 million
household tourism visits. The tourism business in India produced about
US$100 billion in 2008 and that is relied upon to increment to US$275.5
billion by 2018 at a9.4% yearly development rate. The Ministry of Tourism
is the nodal office for the improvement and advancement of tourism in
India and keeps up the "Extraordinary India" battle. Tourism will grow
significantly in future mostly because of the insurgency that is occurring on
both the interest and supply side. The changing populace structure, change
in expectation for everyday comforts, more extra cash, less working hours
and long recreation time, better taught individuals, maturing populace and
more inquisitive youth in the created and also creating nations, all will fuel
the tourism business development. The landing of a substantial number of
clients, better taught and more complex, will propel the traveler business
to dispatch new items and brands and re-designs customary markets. The
set up customary destinations established on sun-ocean sand items will
need to re-build their items. They should expand and enhance the criteria
for destinations and characteristics of their conventional offers. Close by
shoreline tourism, the tourism division will enroll a consistent
advancement of new items in light of normal provincial business, relaxation
and workmanship and society. Hence the investigation of new markets and
developing markets and need of broadened items are the premise of our
methodology, which can upgrade and support, existing and catch new
markets. It is India's tremendousness that difficulties the creative energy:
the sub-landmass, 3200km (2000 miles) from the hilly inconceivability of
the Himalayas in the north to the tropical lavishness of Kerala in the south,
is home to one 6th of the world's populace, an assorted society and an
intoxicatingly rich history. Leaving Rajasthan, tropical timberlands in the
north eastern states, dry mountains in the delta district of Maharashtra and
Karnataka and inconceivable ripe planes in northern conditions of Uttar
Pradesh, Haryana and so forth are only a portion of the topographical
assorted qualities that can be watched. We have an abundance of
archeological destinations and authentic landmarks. Labor costs in the
Indian inn industry are one of the most minimal on the planet. This gives
better edges to any industry which depends on labor. One of the interests
of India is the juxtaposition of old and new; hundreds of years of history
from the pre-notable Indus human progress to the British Raj rub
shoulders with the PC age; and Bangalore's Silicon Valley is as much a part
of the world's biggest majority rules system as the remotest town seems to
be. The Deloitte (2009)

Survey of Health Care Consumers

A broadly illustrative, online study of more than 3,000 Americans, found
that outbound restorative tourism is relied upon to experience dangerous
development throughout the following three to five years. Consider the
accompanying:

Medicinal services expenses are expanding at eight percent for each year
well over the Consumer Price Index (CPI), in this way eating into corporate
benefits and family extra cash. The security and nature of consideration
accessible in numerous seaward settings is no more an issue: Organizations
including the Joint Commission International (JCI) and others are
authorizing these offices. Customers will go to get care that is both
protected and less exorbitant. Indeed, two in five review respondents said
they would be intrigued by seeking after treatment abroad if quality was
tantamount and the funds were 50 percent or more. By difference, inbound
medicinal tourism and restorative tourism crosswise over stateliness will
keep on being an intriguing open door for forte center points with
medications distracted somewhere else on the planet or in a group setting.
AN INTRODUCTION

History:
The idea of medicinal tourism is not another one. The initially recorded occasion of
restorative tourism goes back a large number of years to when Greek explorers went
from everywhere throughout the Mediterranean to the little domain in the Saronic
Gulf Called Epidauria. This domain was the asylum of the mending god Asklepios.
Epidauria turned into the first travel destination for therapeutic tourism. Spa towns
and asylums might be viewed as an early type of therapeutic tourism. In eighteenth
century England, for instance, med trotters went to spas since they were spots with as
far as anyone knows wellbeing giving mineral waters, treating infections from gout to
liver issue and bronchitis.

Description:
Components that have prompted the expanding prominence of medicinal
travel incorporate the high cost of human services, long sit tight times for
specific strategies, the simplicity and reasonableness of global travel, and
upgrades in both innovation and norms of consideration in numerous
nations.

Medicinal sightseers can originate from anyplace in the First World,

including Europe, the Middle East, Japan, the United States, and Canada.
This is a direct result of their extensive populaces, relatively high riches,
the high cost of medicinal services or absence of human services
alternatives locally, and progressively elevated standards of their
populaces as for social insurance. A power at the Harvard Business School
as of late expressed that "medicinal tourism is advanced substantially more
vigorously in the United Kingdom than in the United States". A vast attract
to therapeutic travel is comfort and speed. Nations that work general
medicinal services frameworks are regularly so exhausted that it can
require significant investment to get non-earnest therapeutic
consideration. The time spent sitting tight for a technique, for example, a
hip substitution can be a year or more in Britain and Canada; be that as it
may, in New Zealand, Costa Rica, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Cuba,
Colombia, Philippines or India, a patient could attainably have an operation
the day after their landing. Moreover, patients are finding that protection
either does not cover orthopedic surgery, (for example, knee/hip
substitution) or forces preposterous confinements on the decision of the
office, specialist, or prosthetics to be utilized. Therapeutic tourism for
knee/hip substitutions has developed as one of the all the more generally
acknowledged systems on account of the lower cost and insignificant
troubles connected with the flying out to/from the surgery. Colombia gives
a knee substitution to about $5,000 USD, including all related expenses, for
example,

FDA-Approved prosthetics and healing facility stay-over costs. In any case,

numerous centers cite costs that are not comprehensive and incorporate
just the specialist expenses connected with the methodology. As per an
article by the University of Delaware distribution, UDaily: The expense of
surgery in India, Thailand or South Africa can be one-tenth of what it is in
the United States or Western Europe, and now and then even less. A heart-
valve substitution that would cost $200,000 or more in the US, for instance,
goes for $10,000 in India- - and that incorporates round-excursion airfare
and a brief get-away bundle. Also, a without metal dental scaffold worth
$5,500 in the US costs $500 in India, a knee supplanting in Thailand with
six days of physical

Treatment costs around one-fifth of what it would in the States, and Lasik
eye surgery worth $3,700 in the US is accessible in numerous different
nations for only$730. Corrective surgery reserve funds are much more
prominent: A full facelift that would cost$20,000 in the US keeps running
about $1,250 in South Africa.

Medical travel
Overall destinations include: Argentina, Brunei, Cuba, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Jordan, Lithuania, Malaysia, The Philippines,
Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, and as of late, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Tunisia
and New Zealand. Well known Cosmetic surgery travel Destinations
include: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico and
Turkey. In South America, nations, for example, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil
and Colombia lead on plastic surgery restorative aptitudes depending on
their accomplished plastic specialists. In Bolivia and Colombia, plastic
surgery has additionally turned out to be very normal. As indicated by the
"Sociedad Bolivian de Cirugia Plastica Reconstructiva", more than 70% of
center and high society ladies in the nation have had some type of plastic
surgery. Colombia additionally gives propelled care in cardiovascular and
transplant surgery. In Europe Belgium, Poland and Slovakia are
additionally breaking into the business. South Africa is taking the
expression "therapeutic tourism" actually by advancing their "medicinal
safaris". A specific subset of therapeutic tourism is regenerative tourism
and conceptive outsourcing, which is the act of setting out abroad to
experiencing vitro preparation, surrogate pregnancy and other helped
conceptive innovation medicines including solidifying incipient organisms
for retro-creation However, view of restorative tourism are not generally
positive. In spots like the US, which has exclusive requirements of value,
therapeutic tourism is seen as dangerous. In a few sections of the world,
more extensive political issues can impact where therapeutic sightseers
will search out medicinal services.

Wellbeing tourism suppliers have created as go-betweens to join potential

restorative visitors with supplier healing centers and different associations.
Organizations are starting to offer worldwide medicinal services
alternatives that will empower North American and European patients to
get to world social insurance at a small amount of the expense of local
consideration. Organizations that attention on therapeutic quality travel
normally give attendant caseworkers to help patients with pre-and post-
travel restorative issues. They likewise give assets to catch up
consideration upon the patient's arrival process.

The typical process is as follows:

 The person seeking medical treatment abroad contacts a medical
tourism provider.
 The provider usually requires the patient to provide a medical report, including
the nature of ailment, local doctor’s opinion, medical history, and diagnosis, and
may request additional information.

Guaranteed therapeutic specialists or advisors then exhort on the

medicinal treatment. The surmised consumption, decision of healing
centers and traveler destinations, and length of stay, and so on., is talked
about. Subsequent to consenting to assent bonds and arrangements, the
patient is given suggestion letters for a medicinal visa, to be obtained from
the concerned international safe haven.

The patient goes to the destination nation, where the therapeutic tourism
supplier appoints a case official, who deals with the patient's settlement,
treatment and some other type of consideration.

Once the treatment is done, the patient can stay in the traveler destination
or return home.
International healthcare accreditation
Since models are critical with regards to human services, there are parallel issues
around therapeutic tourism, universal social insurance accreditation, proof based
solution and quality confirmation. In the United States, the best known accreditation
gathering is the Joint Commission International (JCI). They have been assessing and
certifying medicinal services offices and doctor's facilities outside of the United States
following 1999 and are a trusted hotspot for American restorative vacationers.
Numerous universal clinics today see getting JCI accreditation as an approach to pull
in American patients. In the UK and Hong Kong, the Trent International Accreditation
Scheme is a key player. The diverse universal medicinal services accreditation plans
shift in quality, size, cost, aim and the ability and power of their showcasing.

They likewise change as far as expense to doctor's facilities and social insurance
foundations making utilization of them. An estimate by Deloitte Consulting with
respect to restorative tourism distributed in August 2008 noticed the estimation of
accreditation in guaranteeing nature of medicinal services and particularly said JCI,
ISQUA and Trent. Progressively, a few healing centers are looking towards double
universal accreditation, maybe having both JCI to cover potential US customers and
Trent for potential British and European demographic. As a consequence of rivalry
between centers for American restorative travelers, there have been activities to rank
clinics in light of patient-reported measurements. Other relevant organizations
include:

The Society for International Healthcare Accreditation (SOFIHA), a free-to-

join group providing a forum for discussion and for the sharing of ideas and
good practice by providers of international healthcare accreditation and
users of the same. The essential part of this association is to advance a
protected healing facility environment for patients.

HealthCare Tourism International, the first US-based non-profit to accredit

the non-clinical aspects of health tourism, such as language issues, business
practices, and false or misleading advertising prevention. The group gives
accreditation to every single significant group involved in the health tourism industry
including lodgings, recuperation offices, and restorative tourism booking offices.

The United Kingdom Accreditation Forum (UKAF) is an established

network of accreditation organizations with the intention of sharing
experience good practice and new ideas around the methodology for
accreditation programmes, covering issues such as developing healthcare
quality standards, implementation of standards within healthcare
organizations, assessment by peer review and exploration of the peer
review techniques to include the recruitment, training, monitoring and
evaluation of peer reviewers and the mechanisms for awards of accredited
status to organizations.

The International Medical Travel Association, (IMTA, based in Singapore),

is a nonprofit association formed to help address quality standards, liability
issues, continuity of care, and other issues.

Medical Tourism Association, is a nonprofit association focusing on

transparency in quality and pricing.

Risks:-
Medical tourism conveys a few dangers that privately gave medicinal
consideration does not. A few nations, for example, India, Malaysia, or
Thailand have altogether different irresistible sickness related the study of
disease transmission to Europe and North America. Presentation to
ailments without having developed normal safety can be a peril for
debilitated people, particularly as for gastrointestinal illnesses (e.g.
Hepatitis A, amoebic looseness of the bowels, paratyphoid) which could
debilitate progress, mosquito-transmitted sicknesses, flu, and tuberculosis.
Notwithstanding, on the grounds that in poor tropical country's maladies
run the array, specialists appear to be more open to the likelihood of
considering any irresistible ailment, including HIV, TB, and typhoid, while
there are cases in the West where patients were reliably misdiagnosed for
quite a long time in light of the fact that such infections are seen to be
"uncommon" in the West. The nature of post-agent consideration can
likewise shift drastically, contingent upon the healing center and nation,
and might be unique in relation to US or European measures. Be that as it
may, JCI and Trent satisfy the part of accreditation by surveying the
principles in the medicinal services in the nations like India, China and
Thailand. Additionally, voyaging long separations not long after surgery can
build the danger of intricacies. Long flights and diminished portability in a
confined carrier lodge are a known danger variable for creating blood
clumps in the legs, for example, venous thrombosis or pneumonic embolus
economy class disorder. Other get-away exercises can be dangerous too ²
for instance, scars may get to be darker and more perceptible in the event
that they sunburn while mending. To minimize these issues, medicinal
tourism patients frequently join their therapeutic excursions with get-away
time put aside for rest and recuperation in the destination nation. Likewise,
wellbeing offices treating restorative voyagers may do not have a sufficient
protests approach to bargain properly and decently with dissensions made
by disappointed patients. Contrasts in human services supplier models far
and wide have been perceived by the World Health Organization, and in
2004 it dispatched the World Alliance for Patient Safety. This body helps
healing facilities and government around the globe in setting
understanding security strategy and practices that can turn out to be
especially significant while giving restorative tourism administrations.

Legal issues:-

By going outside their nation of origin for restorative consideration, therapeutic

voyagers may experience new moral and lawful issues. The constrained way of case in
non-US nations is one purpose behind the lower expense of consideration abroad.
While a few nations right now introducing themselves as appealing restorative
tourism destinations give some type of legitimate solutions for therapeutic practice,
these lawful streets might be unappealing to the medicinal visitor. Should issues
emerge, patients won't not be secured by satisfactory individual protection or may be
not able look for pay by means of negligence claims. Doctor's facilities as well as
specialists in a few nations might be not able pay the budgetary harms recompensed
by a court to a patient who has sued them, attributable to the clinic and/or the
specialist not having suitable protection spread and/or restorative reimbursement.
However new protection items are accessible that ensure the patient ought to an
asserted restorative negligence happen abroad.

Ethical issues:-

There can be major moral issues around restorative tourism. For instance,
the illicit buy of organs and tissues for transplantation has been claimed in
nations, for example, India and China. Medicinal tourism may raise more
extensive moral issues for the nations in which it is advanced. For instance
in India, some contend that a "strategy of 'therapeutic tourism for the
classes and wellbeing missions for the masses' will prompt a developing of
the disparities" effectively implanted in the medicinal services framework.

In Thailand, in2008 it was stated that, "Doctors in Thailand have become so busy with
foreigners that Thai patients are having trouble getting care".

Fortis Hospital India

Fortis Healthcare Limited is a leading integrated healthcare delivery
service provider in India. The healthcare verticals of the company primarily
comprise hospitals, diagnostics and day care specialty facilities. The
company operates its healthcare delivery services in India, Dubai,
Mauritius and Sri Lanka with 54 healthcare facilities (including projects
under development), approximately 10,000 potential beds and 260
diagnostic Centre’s. In a global study of the 30 most technologically
advanced hospitals in the world, its flagship, the Fortis Memorial Research
Institute’ (FMRI), was ranked No.2, by ‘topmastersinhealthcare.com, and
placed ahead of many other outstanding medical institutions in the world.
Infrastructure is world class and they operate under international
protocols. All the Fortis facilities are built with patients in mind along with
idea to make each facility of ease and convenience to visitors and patients.

Accreditations, awards, and collaborations

- Fortis Hospital Mohali is JCI accredited

- Affiliated to Partners HealthCare System Inc. (PHS), USA
- Best IT User” for “Infrastructure in Healthcare” at the 2005 NASSCOM
India IT User Awards.
- Best Design Award by the American Institute of Architecture in 1999
- NABL certified path lab.
Some highlights of Fortis hospital

- Largest Cardiac Program in the world with over 6000 surgeries, 5000
Angioplasties and 14000 angiographies on an annual basis.
- Operation Theatres (OT) equipped with HEPA filters ensuring an
infection-free environment.
- State of Art Operation Theatres with laminar flow with shadow less
lighting
- 24 hours emergency ambulance service
- Radio Diagnostics
- Picture Archival Communication System (PACS)
- A dedicated Emergency & Trauma Centre

General Procedures and Facilities Specialties:

- Cardiac Sciences
- Orthopaedic
- Neuro-Sciences
- Nephrology
- Cosmetic & Plastic Surgery
- Dental
- Psychiatry
- Ophthalmology
- ENT
- Spinal Surgery
- Endoscopic Surgeries: Minimal Invasive Surgeries
- Oncology
- Women & Child Health
- Diabetology

The Fortis Health care group has its centers at:

 Fortis Hospital Mohali

 Fortis Hospital Noida
 Fortis Escorts Hospital Faridabad
 Fortis Escorts Hospital Amritsar
 Fortis Escorts Hospital Raipur
 Fortis La Femme New Delhi
 Fortis Escorts Hospital Jaipur
 Fortis Malar Hospital Chennai
 Fortis Seshadripuram Hospital, Bengaluru
 Fortis Modi Hospital, Kota
  Fortis Jessa Ram Hospital, Karol Bagh, New Delhi

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MEDICAL TOURISM IN INDIA

Medicinal tourism in India has developed as the quickest developing section of

tourism industry regardless of the worldwide monetary downturn. High cost of
medications in the created nations, especially the USA and UK, has been driving
patients from such locales to search for option and financially savvy destinations to
complete their medicines. The Indian therapeutic tourism industry is without further
ado at an early stage, however has a colossal potential for future development and
improvement.

Satisfaction Level of the Patients:-

The real reason to come in India are get-together, treatment and tourism.
The discoveries propose that patients are coming significantly for the heart
illnesses, orthopedic infections and for gastro intestinal sicknesses. A large
portion of the patients select the Hospital or Doctors on the bases of the
exhortation of their relatives or companions and from sites. The significant
fascination for the patients are specialist's specialization and low treatment
charges. Patients gave their first need to the treatment, trailed by
budgetary costs, cordiality and settlement. A large portion of the patients
are fulfilled by the treatment and offices accessible in the clinic. Larger part
of the patients demonstrate their willingness to visit the same doctor's
facility again later on if there will be any need emerge.

Current Scenario in Indian Tourism

Tourism is the largest service industry in India, with a contribution

of 6.23% to the national GDP and 8.78% of the total employment in India.
India witnesses more than 5 million annual foreign tourist arrivals and562 million
domestic tourism visits. The tourism industry in India generated about US$100
billion in 2008and that is expected to increase to US$275.5 billion by 2018 at
a 9.4%annual growth rate.
The Ministry of Tourism is the nodal agency for the development and promotion of
tourism in India and maintains the "Incredible India" campaign.
According to World Travel and Tourism Council, India will be a tourism hotspot
from 2009-2018, having the highest 10-year growth potential.

The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2007 ranked tourism in India 6th in
terms of price competitiveness and 39th in terms of safety and security.

Despite short- and medium-term setbacks, such as shortage of hotel rooms,

tourism revenues are expected to surge by 42% from 2007 to2017.

India has a growing medical tourism sector. The 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi
has significantly boosted tourism in India.

Hill Stations:-

A few slope stations served as summer capitals of Indian regions, august

states, or, on account of Shimla, of British India itself. Since Indian
Independence, the part of these slope stations as summer capitals has to a
great extent finished, however numerous slope stations stay famous
summer resorts. Most renowned slope stations are:

Pachmarhi, Madhya Pradesh - It is otherwise called The Queen of Satpura.

Araku, Andhra Pradesh, Gulmarg, Srinagar and Laddakh in Jammu and
Kashmir, Darjeeling in West Bengal, Munnar in Kerala, Ooty and Kodaikanal
in Tamil Nadu, Shillong in Meghalaya, Shimla and Kullu in Himachal
Pradesh Nainital in Uttarakhand, Gangtok in Sikkim, Mussoorie in
Uttarakhand notwithstanding the clamoring slope stations and summer
capitals of yore, there are a few quiet and serene nature withdraws and
places important to visit for a nature beau. These reach from the dazzling
moonscapes of Leh and Laddakh to little, select nature withdraws, for
example, Dunagiri, Binsar, Mukteshwar in the Himalayas, to moving vistas
of Western Ghats to various private retreats in the moving slopes of Kerala.

Beaches:-

Elephants and camels rides are basic on Indian shorelines. Appeared here is Havelock
Island, part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands India offers an extensive variety of
tropical shorelines with silver/brilliant sand to coral shorelines of Lakshadweep.
States like Kerala and Goa have abused the capability of shorelines without bounds.
Nonetheless, there are a great deal numerous unexploited shorelines in the conditions
of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. These states
have high potential to be create them as future destinations for imminent voyagers.
Some of the famous tourist beaches are:

Beaches of Vizag, Andhra Pradesh

Beaches of Puri, Orissa

Beaches of Digha, West Bengal

Beaches of Goa

Kovalam Beach, Kerala

Marina Beach, Chennai

Beaches of Mahabalipuram

Beaches in Mumbai

Beaches of Diu

Beaches of Midnapore, West Bengal

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Lakshadweep Islands

A Country Forever... A Story Forever

With Tourism being one of the principal boulevards to put India on the worldwide
guide, it is cheering to see that the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report of
2010 from the World Economic Forum, has positioned India as eleventh in the Asia
Pacific area and 62nd in general, climbing three spots on the rundown of the world's
most alluring destinations. It additionally positioned fourteenth best visitor
destination for its characteristic assets and 24th for its social assets, attributable to
numerous World Heritage locales, rich widely varied vegetation, and solid innovative
industry. The Indian tourism industry positioned fifth in long haul development and
the report likewise anticipates that it will end up being the second biggest business on
the planet by the year 2019.The Tourism Ministry has guaranteed that tourism in
India has as of now began hinting at early recuperation from the effect of worldwide
financial emergency and in December 2010 sightseers landings became considerably
by 21%registering a development of more than 8% over the entries in December
2007 which was really a year of high development. Regardless of the worldwide
monetary retreat in 2008 and 2009, the Indian economy has kept on having great
development. India's GDP in 2008-09 developed by 6.7%.During April-September,
2010 India's GDP has seen a development of 7%, though the worldwide economy is
assessed to have a negative development in 2009. The quantum hop in Foreign Direct
Investment (FDI) in the Hotel and Tourism area in the year 2009 and 2010 is
additionally demonstrative of the positive situation. Showing a turnaround, outside
vacationer landings into the nation developed by 21 percent in December 2010, over
the comparing month in 2009.

Foreign Tourist Arrivals

2015 Estimates of foreign tourist’s arrivals (FTAs) and foreign exchange

earnings (FEEs) are important indicators of the tourism sectors. FEEs in USD terms
during the month of November 2015 were USD 1.2 billion as compared to USD 1
billion in November 2010.
FTAs during 2010 were 5.11 million with a growth rate of (-) 3.3% as
compared to the FTAs of 5.28 million and growth rate of 4% during 2008.
FTAs during the Month of December 2015 were 6.46 lakh as compared to FTAs of
5.34 lakh in December 2009 and 5.97 lakh in December 2008.

Foreign Exchange Earnings

Charges in Rupee terms amid 2015 were Rs. 54960 crore when contrasted with
Rs.50730 crore in 2010. The development rate in FEEs in Rupee terms amid 2010
was 8.3% when contrasted with 2009, and 14.4% amid 2009 when contrasted with
2008. Notwithstanding the negative development rate of 3.3% in FTAs, FEEs in rupee
terms watched a positive development rate of around 8% amid 2015.
Expenses amid 2010 were USD 11.39 billion when contrasted with USD 11.75 billion
amid 2010.

Government Initiatives:-

Understanding that the genuine capability of tourism lies in mindful practices on both
the interest and supply sides of the tourism chain, the Ministry of Tourism has
received the µsustainable tourism course and joined it into the inventive Rural
Tourism Project.

Projects and Sanctioned Budgets

Advancement of tourism is essentially attempted by the State Governments/Union
Territory Administrations and the Ministry of Tourism gives money related help to
tourism ventures in view of the proposition got from them subject to accessibility of
assets and need. The Tourism Ministry had endorsed various ventures the country
over for improving the tourism foundation; a considerable lot of them were
authorized amid the year 2009.After the silicon surge India is currently considered as
the brilliant spot for treating patients for the most part from the created nations and
Far East for sicknesses and techniques of moderately high cost and multifaceted
nature. India is additionally forcefully advancing medicinal tourism in the present
years-and gradually now it is moving into another region of "restorative outsourcing,
"where subcontractors give administrations to the overburdened therapeutic
consideration frameworks in western nations. India's National Health Policy
announces that treatment of outside patients is lawfully a "fare" and regarded
"qualified for every single monetary motivating force stretched out to fare profit."
Government and private segment thinks about in India evaluate that therapeutic
tourism could bring between $1 billion and $2 billion US into the nation by2012.
Passing by the Statistics different studies it can be effectively said that India would be
the pioneer in restorative tourism inside the following decade if no one but it could
enhance the base and visit attractions.

Medical tourism: A Global perspective

Medical tourism happens when patients go to an alternate nation for either critical or
elective restorative methods. This marvel is quick turning into an around the world,
multibillion-dollar industry. The reasons patients go for treatment fluctuate.
Numerous restorative sightseers from the United States are looking for treatment at a
quarter or once in a while even a tenth of the expense at home. From Canada, it is
regularly individuals who are disappointed by long holding up times. From Great
Britain, the patient can hardly wait for treatment by the National Health Service
additionally can't bear to see a doctor in private practice. For others, turning into a
medicinal visitor is an opportunity to join a tropical get-away with elective or plastic
surgery. What's more, in addition patients are originating from poorer nations, for
example, Bangladesh where treatment may not be accessible and going for surgery in
European or western created nations is costly.
Thailand
While, in this way, India has pulled in patients from Europe, the Middle East
and Canada, Thailand has been the objective for Americans. India at first
pulled in individuals who had left that nation for the West; Thailand treated
western exiles crosswise over Southeast Asia. A hefty portion of them
worked for western organizations and had the upside of adaptable, overall
restorative protection arranges outfitted particularly at the ostracize and
abroad corporate markets. With the development of therapeutic related
travel and forceful advertising, Bangkok turned into an inside for medicinal
tourism. Bangkok's International Medical Center offers administrations in
26 dialects, perceives social and religious dietary confinements and has an
uncommon wing for Japanese patients. The therapeutic visit organizations
that serve Thailand frequently put accentuation on the excursion
perspectives, offering post-recuperation resort remains.

South Africa
South Africa likewise draws numerous corrective surgery patients,
particularly from Europe, and numerous South African facilities offer
bundles that incorporate individual associates, visits with prepared
specialists, and excursions to top excellence salons, post-agent care in
lavish inns and safaris or other get-away motivating forces. Since the South
African rand has such a longstanding low rate on the remote trade market,
restorative tourism bundles there have a tendency to be unending deals
too.

Argentina
Argentina positions high for plastic surgery, and Hungary draws vast
quantities of patients from Western Europe and the U.S. for great corrective
and dental systems that cost half of what they would in Germany and
America.

Dubai
Lastly, Dubai- - a destination definitely known as an extravagance get-away
heaven—is booked to open the Dubai Healthcare City by 2010. Arranged on
the Red Sea, this facility will be the biggest universal therapeutic focus
amongst Europe and Southeast Asia. Slated to incorporate another branch
of the Harvard Medical School, it likewise might be the most prestigious
remote center not too far off.
Other countries
Different nations keen on medicinal tourism tended to begin offering
consideration to particular markets yet have extended their
administrations as the interest develops far and wide. Cuba, for instance,
initially pointed its administrations at well-off patients from Central and
South America and now pulls in patients from Canada, Germany and Italy.
Malaysia pulls in patients from encompassing Southeast Asian nations;
Jordan serves patients from the Middle East. Israel takes into account both
Jewish patients and individuals from some adjacent nations. One Israeli
healing facility promotes overall administrations, having some expertise in
both male and female fruitlessness, in-vitro preparation and high-chance
pregnancies. South Africa offers bundle medicinal occasion manages stays
at either lavish inns or safaris.

SWOT ANALYSIS

STRENGTHS:
Minimal effort surgeries and medicinal medications, for example, complex Bone
Marrow transplant, liver transplant, kidney transplant, specific cardiovascular/heart
surgery, surgeries for hip joint substitution, knee joint substitution, dental surgery, and
restorative surgeries, to specify a couple. All these surgical systems are completed by
master specialists.
India has different cutting edge restorative foundations and healing centers of global
norms. Individuals all around the globe are excited to see the differing qualities and
solidarity of India. In this way, when they get the upside of therapeutic treatment
alongside a double favorable position of getting the opportunity to travel India, they
pick India over others.
Relatively the expense of surgery in India is assessed to be one-tenth of that in the
United States or Western Europe, and at times even less. A Heart-valve substitution
that would cost $200,000 or more in the US, for instance, goes for $10,000 in India- -
and that incorporates round-outing airfare and a brief excursion bundle. Also there
are other such surgical methods that cost less in India.
Chennai (in the past known as Madras), the capital city of the Indian condition of
Tamil Nadu, has been announced India's Health Capital, as it nets in 48%of wellbeing
voyagers from abroad and 37-41% of residential wellbeing visitors.

WEAKNESSES:
Absence of satisfactory framework is the most concerning issue that India faces. The
aeronautics business in India, for instance, is wasteful and does not give even the
essential offices at air terminals. The street condition in India is more terrible. The
populace has become exponentially since 1947 yet despite everything we utilize the
same rail framework developed by the British.

The legislature spends by nothing on legitimate showcasing of India's tourism abroad.

Therefore nonnatives still consider India a nation ridden by neediness, superstition,
and ailments with snake charmers and sadhus at each niche and corner.

A valid example Thailand; where despite the enormous issue of winged animal
influenza illness the visitors landing just dropped by under 15% where as in India
when instances of disease began happening in Surat in 1994 the entry of remote
sightseers in India diminished by very nearly 36%.

OPPORTUNITIES:
More proactive part from the administration of India regarding
surrounding approaches. Permitting section of more multinational
organizations into the nation giving us a worldwide viewpoint.
Development of residential tourism. The point of preference here is that
local tourism and global tourism can be isolated effortlessly inferable from
the distinctive in the time of occasions.

THREATS:
Political turbulence inside India in Kashmir and Gujarat has likewise diminished
vacationer movement. Not just are that apprehension of scourges, for example, for
jungle fever, cholera, dengue, plague and so forth chief in the brain of European and
America patients.
Forceful systems received by different nations like Australia, Singapore in advancing
tourism are likewise not making a difference.

WHAT IS INDIA OFFERING? :

AYURVEDA:-
India has a rich legacy in the zones of conventional and normal
medications. The soonest say of Indian restorative practices can be found
in the Vedas and Samhitas of Charaka, Bhela and Shusruta. A methodical
and investigative methodology was embraced by the sages of the time
prompting the improvement of a framework that is significant even today.
India is the place that is known for Ayurveda. It trusts in expelling the
reason for sickness and not simply curing the ailment itself. It depends on
herbals and home grown parts without having symptoms. Ayurveda
considers that the base of life lies in the five essential components; ether
(space), air, fire, water and earth. Also, the individual is comprised of a one
of a kind extent of the five components in remarkable blends to frame three
doshas (vata, pita and kapha). At the point when any of these doshas get to
be intense, a man falls sick. Ayurveda prescribes an extraordinary way of
life and nutritious rules supplemented with natural prescriptions. On the
off chance that poisons are inexhaustible, then a cleaning procedure known
as Panchkarma is prescribed to dispense with those undesirable poisons
and rejuvenate both personality and body. Ayurveda offers medications for
afflictions, for example, joint inflammation, loss of motion, heftiness,
sinusitis, headache, untimely maturing and general medicinal services.
Kerala is a world vacationer destination and part of the reasons lies with
the understood anxiety discharging treatments of renowned worldwide
Ayurveda research focuses. The atmosphere alongside the gift of nature has
transformed Kerala into the perfect spot for Ayurveda, healing and
restoring medicines.

YOGA:-
On the off chance that Ayurveda is the investigation of body, yoga is the exploration of
the brain. Honed together they can go far in making an individual fit. The word yoga
intends to join together. A definitive point of yoga is to join the human soul with the
widespread soul. Yoga was created 5000 years back and the base of yoga is portrayed
in the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. This depicts eight phases of yoga. These are Yam
(widespread good charges), Niyam (self-purging), Asana (stance), Pranayama
(breathing control), Prathyahara (withdrawal of psyche from outside articles),
Dharana (focus), Dhyana (contemplation), and Samadhi (condition of super
awareness). To get the advantages of yoga, one needs to practice Asana, Pranayama
and Yoganidra. With the general routine of asana one can 327control cholesterol level,
decrease weight, standardize pulse and enhance cardiovascular execution.
Pranayama discharges strains, create loose perspective and Yoganidra is a type of
contemplation that unwinds both physiological and mental frameworks. Today, yoga
has gotten to be well known in India and abroad and in various spots including urban
and provincial ranges yoga is taught and honed.

SPA TREATMENT:-
The greater part of alternate parts of the world have their own particular treatments
and treatment that are most likely viable in reestablishing health and excellence. New
sorts of wellbeing visits that are picking up prominence in India are spa visits. Spas
offer the one of a kind points of interest of taking the best from the west and the east
joining them with the indigenous framework and offering best of the two universes. In
hydropathy, Swedish back rubs work with the Javanese Mandy, lulur, fragrant healing,
reflexology and conventional Ayurveda strategies to keep the vacationer sound and
improve excellence. Joining these treatments with contemplation, yoga and
pranayama make the spa involvement in India another destination for restorative
tourism. The spas are extremely helpful for controlling circulatory strain, a sleeping
disorder, cure pressure, sadness, loss of motion and number of other savage illnesses.
Ananda Resort in Rishikesh, Angsana Resort, Golden Palm Spa and Ayurgram in
Bangalore offer ayurveda, naturopathy, yoga and reflection bundles. (Gaur Kanchilal)
Allopathy India has made fast walks in cutting edge social insurance frameworks,
which gives world class allopathic treatment. This has ended up conceivable on
account of the rise of the private part bigly in this field. More outside vacationers are
understanding that India is a perfect spot for stopover treatment. Indian Multi-claim
to fame clinics are giving world class treatment at an amazingly efficient expense
when contrasted with the west. Quality administrations and low value figure
essentially go support of India. The cardio care, bone marrow transplantation, dialysis,
kidney transplant, neuron surgery, joint substitution surgery, urology, osteoporosis
and various sicknesses are dealt with at Indian doctor's facilities with full proficient
mastery. Apollo doctor's facility bunch, Escorts in Delhi, Jason Hospital, Global
Hospital, and Max Health Care are taking into account medicinal tend to universal
patients in the territories of symptomatic, sickness administration, preventive human
services and sharp surgeries. The tourism office has conceived sites with a specific end
goal to give data. Numerous Ayurveda wellbeing resorts that are claimed by
conventional Ayurveda Institutes have come up. Ayurgram is a novel idea that offers
legacy convenience as well as offers an entire scope of Ayurveda medications and
restoring bundles.

SPIRITUAL TOURISM:-

Comprehensively individuals are progressively rationally aggravated and searching

for comfort in profound perusing, reflection and snippets of awesome happiness. Our
nation has been known as the seat of mysticism and India's cosmopolitan nature is
best reflected in its explorer Centre's. Religion is the life-blood for devotees of
significant religion and orders. Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism
and Christianity have lived here for a considerable length of time. The noticeable
overflowing of religious intensity is seen in the compositionally sumptuous
sanctuaries, mosques, cloisters and Churches spreads over the length and
expansiveness of the nation. India is not just known as a spot rich in its way of life with
changed attractions additionally for some spots of love. Presents itself as epitomes of
sympathy where one get significant serenity. In this manner India has been regarded
as a destination for otherworldly tourism for household and worldwide travelers.
Otherworldly tourism is additionally termed as religious legacy tourism. It
incorporates every one of the religions said above; religious spots connected with,
enthusiastic connection to these focuses and framework offices for the sightseers. This
can likewise be alluded to as journey tourism, as customers are not searching for
extravagance but rather difficult excursions to meet the perfect objective or basic life.
ADVENTURE TOURISM:-

Youth tourism has been recognized as one of the biggest sections of worldwide and
local tourism. The youthful voyagers are basically encounter seekers, gathering,
enquiring novel encounters. Experience and hazard have an exceptional part to play
in the conduct and states of mind of youthful explorers. The developing number of
youthful voyagers is being fuelled by various variables, for example, expanded
investment in advanced education, falling level of youth unemployment, expanded
travel spending plan through parental commitment, hunt down a significantly all the
more energizing and remarkable experience and less expensive long separation
travel. Youth and enterprise tourism seems to have significant development potential.
The rising wage in some real potential source markets, for example, the Central and
Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America, consolidated with the lower travel cost,
developing understudy populaces around the globe especially in creating nations, has
fuelled the interest. India: a paradise for enterprise tourism India has been a
fascination for explorers from everywhere throughout the world. In spite of the fact
that in the field of worldwide tourism, the portion of experience tourism in India is
getting just a small amount of such movement. The pattern has been demonstrating
an expanded development a seemingly endless amount of time with the advancement
of offices and more noteworthy mindfulness about enterprise tourism alternatives.

RURAL TOURISM:-
Rustic tourism has been recognized as one of the need territories for
advancement of Indian tourism. Provincial tourism experience ought to be
alluring to the traveler's and manageable for the host group. The Ninth Plan
identified basic objectives of rural tourism as: -
 Improve the quality of life of rural people
 Provide good experience to the tourist
 Maintain the quality of environment. Indian villages have the potential for
tourism development. With attractive and unique traditional way of
life, rich culture, nature, crafts, folk-lore and livelihood of Indian
villages are a promising destination for the tourist. It also provides
tourism facilities in terms of accessibility, accommodation, sanitation
and security. Rural tourism can be used as a means to:-
 Improve the well-being of the rural poor
 Empower the rural people
 Empower the women
 Enhance the rural infrastructure
 Participate in decision-making and implementing tourism policies
 Interaction with the outside world
 Improve the social condition of lower sections of the society.
  Protection of culture, heritage, and nature. To tap the immense
opportunities, coordinated actives of all agencies involved in the development
are required. A carefully planned and properly implemented development will
definitely benefit the community economically and improve the quality of life in
the villages. The success of such development depends upon the
people’s participation at grass root level for the development of
tourist facilities and for creating a tourist friendly atmosphere.
Development of rural tourism is fast and trade in hotels and restaurants
is growing rapidly. Increase in the share of earnings through rural tourism
will no doubt; provide an attractive means of livelihood to the poor
rural community. It increases the purchasing power at all levels of
community and strengthens the rural economy. Development
of infrastructure facilities such as rail, electricity, water, health and
sanitation will definitely improve the quality of life.

Why the world is moving towards medical tourism

Medicinal travelers have great aim to search out consideration past the United States
for some reasons. In a few areas of the world, best in class therapeutic offices are
difficult to find, on the off chance that they exist by any stretch of the imagination; in
different nations, the general medicinal services framework is overburdened to the
point that it can take years to get required consideration. In Britain and Canada, for
example, the sitting tight period for a hip substitution can be a year or more, while in
Bangkok or Bangalore, a patient can be in the working room the morning subsequent
to getting off a plane. For some medicinal vacationers, however, the genuine
fascination is cost. The expense of surgery in India, Thailand or South Africa can be
one-tenth of what it is in the United States or Western Europe, and here and there
even less. A heart-valve substitution that would cost $200,000 or more in the U.S., for
instance, goes for $10,000 in India- - and that incorporates round-trek airfare and a
brief get-away bundle. Likewise, a without metal dental scaffold worth$5,500 in the
U.S. costs $500 in India, a knee supplanting in Thailand with six days of active
recuperation costs around one-fifth of what it would in the States, and Lasik eye
surgery worth $3,700 in the U.S. is accessible in numerous different nations for just
$730.Cosmetic surgery investment funds are much more noteworthy: A full facelift
that would cost $20,000 in the U.S. keeps running about $1,250 in South Africa. The
reserve funds sound extremely appealing, however a decent new hip and a pleasant
new face don't appear like the kind of things anybody would need to deal with. How
does the equalization of reserve funds versus hazard pay off as far as achievement
rates? Second rate restorative consideration would not be worth having at any cost,
and a few cynics caution that Third World surgery can't in any way, shape or form be
in the same class as that accessible in the United States. Truth be told, there have been
instances of bungled plastic surgery, especially from Mexican centers in the prior days
anybody made sense of what a gold mine shoddy, top notch watch over the creating
nations.

Trends in medical tourism in the near future:-

Some critical patterns ensure that the business sector for medicinal
tourism will keep on expanding in the years ahead. By 2015, the soundness
of the immense Baby Boom era will have started its moderate, last
decrease, and, with more than220 million Boomers in the United States,
Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, this speaks to a noteworthy
business sector for economical, astounding medicinal consideration.
Therapeutic tourism will be especially alluring in the United States, where
an expected 43 million individuals are without medical coverage and
120million without dental scope - numbers that are both prone to develop.
Patients in Britain, Canada and different nations with long sitting tight
records for significant surgery will be pretty much as excited to exploit
outside human services choices.

SCOPE & OPPORTUNITIES

In spite of the fact that the administration part has significant commitment in India's
GDP, it is immaterial on the fare front with just around 25 for every penny of
aggregate fare. Esteem included administrations by and large surpass 60 for every
penny of aggregate yield in the high pay industrialized economy. In the worldwide
situation, India's offer of administrations fare is just 1.3 for each penny (2003) i.e. USD
20.7 billion which has gone up from 0.57 for every penny (1990).Overall
administration send out development rate in India is 8 for each penny (2002) against
a worldwide development rate of 5 for each penny. It tremendously affected India's
Forex save. Forex hold ascend to USD 118.628 on May, 2004 in contrast with USD
79.22 for the same time frame in 2003. Being an administration area part, therapeutic
and tourism administrations fare can facilitate rise India's Forex Reserve alongside a
noteworthy commitment from programming sends out. In India, worldwide visitor
rose 15.3 for every penny amongst January and December, 2003.

Despite the fact that tourism and travel industry commitment is 2.5 for every penny to
our nations GDP (global positioning 124) however late activity from the
administration like changed open sky approach to expand flight limit, lower and
alluring admissions, increment in inn room limit by almost 80 for every penny
(from2000) and better availability between real vacationer destination (Express
Highway venture) has helped India to rank among the main five worldwide occasion
destination when autonomous explorer gathered information in
134countries.Healthcare industry has demonstrated extensive development in most
recent couple of years. Rise of choice corporate doctor's facilities and nonstop exertion
for development of nature of consideration has put Indian private medicinal services
in are spectable position on the worldwide guide. High proportion of remote qualified
therapeutic specialists and all around prepared nursing and paramedical staff have
created certainty amongst the general population who are looking for medicinal
consideration from Indian Hospitals.

INDIA’S FUTURE PROSPECTUS

There are a few qualities that make India an engaging destination for
guests looking for wellbeing administrations. These incorporate its very
much prepared wellbeing experts; a vast masses of good English talking
specialists, guide sand therapeutic staff; accessibility of super-claim to fame
focuses that exceed expectations in cardiology and cardio-thoracic surgery,
joint substitutions, transplants, restorative medications, dental
consideration, orthopedic surgery and that's only the tip of the iceberg;
clinics that give the full range of wellbeing administrations which
incorporate full body pathology, extensive physical and gynecological
examinations, reverberation Doppler, high quality MRI and so forth
utilizing most recent, mechanically progressed symptomatic equipment's;
lastly, and all the more essentially the accessibility of these premium
administrations at costs that are to a great degree sensible for the remote
visitor.

Emerging Trends of Medical Tourism in India

Restorative tourism was a silver coating for those a huge number of

Uninsured, underinsured and the individuals who were compelled to defer
medicines because of long holding up records. What appeared like a help to
patients from Western nations like US, UK and Canada is currently a dusk of
trust in those nations who are regarded as Medical Tourism centers. In
prevalent medicinal tourism destinations like India, Singapore and
Thailand, Medical Tourism is a quickly developing industry where a huge
number of dollars are being pumped in thoroughly. So as to adapt to the
developing interest for therapeutic consideration, doctor's facilities,
restorative experts and even governments have taken measures to advance
social insurance in India. With regards to human services, security is the
chief concern. The healing facilities in India are all around furnished with
the most recent innovation and houses very qualified and experienced staff
who can give opportune and quality therapeutic treatment to patients. As a
move in advancing therapeutic tourism, numerous clinics are considered as
corporate healing centers' that extraordinarily take into account the
requirements of medicinal sightseers in India. Aside from offering world
class medicines, they offer different administrations that make restorative
visitors stay in India bother free. Numerous doctor's facilities in India have
global accreditations that guarantee the nature of social insurance
administration. Indian Government has recognized the development of
restorative tourism in India and is presently offering Medical Visas. The
underlying time frame for a therapeutic visa might be up to a time of one
year or the time of treatment whichever less, which can be reached out for
a further period up to one year be the State Government/FRROs on the
generation of restorative testament/guidance from the
presumed/perceived/particular healing centers in the nation. Any further
expansion will be allowed by the Ministry of Home Affairs just on the
proposals of the State Government/FRROs bolstered by suitable Medical
reports. Such visa will be substantial for most extreme three sections amid
one year. India is a major player in the therapeutic tourism industry. Truth
be told, it has been positioned the most well known therapeutic tourism
destination by numerous. Aside from the commitment of government and
clinics in enhancing the human services administration in India, what really
gives that edge to India over other medicinal tourism destinations is the
incalculable revival choices it offers and the effortlessness of stay in India.
India is the origin of Yoga, which is a standout amongst the most well
known types of activity and restoration today. There are just about a vast
number of Spa and restoration focuses in India that could inspire the
temperament and improve wellbeing of medicinal vacationers. India is a
vacationer's heaven and when in India for restorative treatment, tourism
comes as a co-advantage of therapeutic tourism. Not at all like other
outlandish destinations on the planet, it is shockingly simple to drive, stay
and speak in India. Individuals in India are to a great degree warm and
have a sound charge over English. Every one of these elements make India
the looked for after destinations for medicinal tourism and India is
currently prepared to oblige the quickly developing interest for human
services in India. Another report, "Blasting Medical Tourism in India', gives
a knowledge into the Indian therapeutic tourism market. It assesses the
past, present and future situation of the Indian therapeutic tourism
showcase and talks about the key variables that are making India an ideal
medicinal tourism destination. Both insights and patterns with respect to
market size, traveler entries, foundation, accreditations, drivers and
limitations have been altogether talked about in the report.
COST COMPARISON

The aggressive expense of therapeutic treatment in India has been the primary
impetus for the development of restorative tourism in the nation. The expenses of
similar treatment in India are by and large one eighth to one fifth of those in the West.
For example, a cardiovascular method costs anyplace between US$ 40,000 - 60,000 in
the United States, US$ 30,000 in Singapore, US$ 12,000 - 15,000 in Thailand and just
US$ 3,000 - 6,000 in India. Similarly, the related expenses of surgery are likewise low.
India additionally can possibly develop as a center for preventive wellbeing screening
in perspective of the accessibility of minimal effort indicative tests. At a private facility
in London a wellbeing registration for men that incorporates blood tests, electro-
cardiogram tests, and mid-section X-Rays, lung tests and stomach ultrasound costs
around £350. In correlation, a similar registration at a facility worked by Delhi-based
medicinal services organization Max Healthcare costs US$ 84. A Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (MRI) examine costs US$ 60 at Escorts Hospital in Delhi, contrasted and
generally US$ 700 in New York. A study done by the India Brand Equity Foundation
(IBEF) in 2004 demonstrated that India is more cost-aggressive when contrasted with
other driving medicinal tourism destination like Thailand. Thailand has a cost
advantage over India in just two classes: plastic surgery and bosom growth. India is
less expensive than Thailand over an entire scope of other²and more genuine ²
surgery classifications as the accompanying outline shows. Surgery Thailand India
Bone Marrow Transplant US$ 62500 US$ 30000Liver Transplant US$ 75000 US$
40000Open Heart Surgery (CABG) US$ 14250 US$ 4400Hip Replacement US$ 6900
US$ 4500Knee Surgery US$ 7000 US$ 4500Hysterectomy US$ 2012 US$ 511Gall
Bladder evacuation US$ 1755 US$ 555* expense in US$

The wellbeing administrations in India have the extra favorable position of giving a
decent blend of allopathic and option frameworks of prescription. For example, while
New Delhi has developed as a prime destination for cardiovascular consideration;
Chennai has built up a corner for quality eye care; Kerala and Karnataka have risen as
center points for cutting edge ayurvedic mending. The degree for benefit in this area
has supported a few expansive organizations, for example, pharmaceuticals and
modern organizations, and a few non-inhabitant Indians (NRIs) to put cash in setting
up super-forte healing centers, for example, Apollo, Medinova, CDR, Mediciti in
Hyderabad; Hindujas and Wockhardt in Mumbai; Max, Escorts, Apollo in Delhi and so
forth. These offices now command the upper end of the private part and provide food
dominatingly to medicinal voyagers and rich areas of the general public. These
foundations have made a corner work market for wellbeing experts prevalently
prepared in broad daylight segment establishments. Indeed, even the Government of
India has reacted immediately to tap the capability of this area. In its push to gain by
this open door the Government has untaken measures to advance India as a
worldwide wellbeing destination'. The National Health Policy 2002 firmly urges
restorative offices to give administrations to clients from abroad. It expresses that
suppliers of such administrations to patients from abroad will be urged by reaching
out to their remote trade, every single monetary motivating force, including the status
of considered fares', which are accessible to different exporters of products and
administrations'. The Indian Ministry of Tourism has begun another class of visas for
the medicinal sightseers. These visas called the M' or medicinal visas are legitimate for
one year yet can be stretched out up to three years and are issued for a patient
alongside a friend. Endeavors have additionally been attempted to enhance the air
terminal base to guarantee smooth entry and flight of the wellbeing vacationers. A
leaflet of the service predicts a sensational development' of the Indian social insurance
industry in the coming years. These components have favored the late spurt of
development of restorative tourism in India. Official figures demonstrate that
restorative voyagers from 55 unique nations come to India for treatment. While a
large portion of these patients are from created nations, India is likewise seeing a
surge of patients from nations in Africa and South and West Asia that need sufficient
medicinal services base. Among others, remote wellbeing voyagers to India include an
extensive number of non-occupant Indians (NRIs). On the off chance that the present
pattern proceeds with exchange wellbeing and wellbeing administrations will get to
be one of the greatest divisions in India. In any case, there are a few difficulties that
could obstruct the development of therapeutic tourism in India, all the more
essentially the development of this part represents a danger to the officially injured
general wellbeing framework in India.

MAJOR PLAYERS

Major players offering Medical Tourism packages

Indian corporate healing facilities exceed expectations in cardiology and
cardiothoracic surgery, joint substitution, orthopedic surgery, gastroenterology,
ophthalmology, transplants and urology to give some examples. The different claims
to fame secured are Neurology, Neurosurgery, Oncology, Ophthalmology,
Rheumatology, Endocrinology, ENT, Pediatrics, Pediatric Surgery, Pediatric
Neurology, Urology, Nephrology, Dermatology, Dentistry, Plastic Surgery, Gynecology,
Pulmonology, Psychiatry, General Medicine and General Surgery The different offices
in India incorporate full body pathology, far reaching physical and gynecological
examinations, dental checkup, eye checkup, diet discussion, audiometry, spirometry,
stress and way of life administration, pap smear, advanced Chest X-beam, 12 lead ECG,
2D reverberation shading Doppler, best quality level DXA bone densitometry, muscle
to fat quotients investigation, coronary danger markers, disease hazard markers,
carotid shading Doppler, winding CT sweep and high quality MRI. Every test is
completed by expert M.D. doctors, and is complete yet torment free.
Industry Players:-

Thomas Cook India Ltd. Co m p a n y I n f o r m a t i o n : -

Thomas Cook (India) Ltd. is the largest integrated Travel and Travel related Financial
Services Company in the country offering a broad spectrum of services that include
Foreign Exchange, Corporate Travel, Leisure Travel, and Insurance. The Company
launched its Indian operations in 1881 and is celebrating its 127 years of world-
class service in India. Thomas Cook (India) operates in the following areas
of business, namely: Leisure Travel, Corporate Travel Management, MICE,
Foreign Exchange, SWIFT Network, Travel Insurance, Credit Cards, Pre-Paid
Cards, Life Insurance and E-Business.
Post March 31st 2008, Thomas Cook (India) Limited (TCIL) is a part of
Thomas Cook Group plc UK (TCG). On March 7th 2008, TCG announced its decision
to acquire TCIL from Dubai Investment Group. Thomas Cook Group plc is one of the
largest travel groups in the world with a market capitalization of
approximately US$6 Billion.
In June 2006, Thomas Cook (India) acquired LKP Forex Limited and Travel
Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd. (TCI).TCIL presently operates in over 72 cities
across over 180 locations. The company has overseas operations in Sri Lanka
which is a branch of TCIL and Mauritius which is a subsidiary of Thomas Cook
(India). The Company employs over 2,200 resources and is listed on both the
Bombay Stock Exchange as well as the National Stock Exchange. Thomas
Cook (India), over the years has received several prestigious awards such
as the Golden Peacock Award for excellence in Corporate Governance and
the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Golden Award for Best Travel.
Recently, the Company won the Best Tour Operator at the CNBC Awaaz
Travel Awards 2008 and was also accredited the P1rating which is the
highest financial rating given by Crisil.
Founded in 2007 Headquarters in Peterborough, England, UK Key people are
Thomas Middle Hoff (Chairman), Michael Beckett (Deputy Chairman),
Manny Fontenla-Novoa (CEO) IT is a travel industry its products are
Package Holidays Employees are 31000

SOTC- India's Leading Tour operator

SOTC is Kuoni India's key outbound travel brand. SOTC, India's biggest
outbound visit administrator was obtained by Kuoni Travels - World's
driving premium Tour Operator in the year 1996 and is a pioneer in all
portions, in particular Escorted Tours, Free Individual Travel, Special
Interest Tours and Domestic Holidays amongst others.
Till date, SOTC has escorted more than 4 lakh travelers over the globe to
different destinations including Europe, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Far
East, Africa and some more. They have served explorers for quite a long
time and won their grins and hearts. SOTC's immeasurable exhibit of
occasion administrations is taking holidaying to a completely new level.
SOTC has been voted "Best Outbound Tour Operator" five times
consecutively by the Galileo Express Travel and Tourism Awards
Committee. The organization has completely used the current business
sector potential as well as made new markets through imaginative bundles
to be specific

Bhraman Mandal brand which is devoted for the Marathi talking populace
and 'Gurjar Vishwadarshan' brand that is committed for the Gujarati
talking populace.

SOTC Corporate (MICE) tours offer the following services to customers:

Innovative work of complete system Identification and reservation of area Venue and
settlement determination Planning, association and preparing of area range
Contracting and transaction of administrations association of pre and post visit
programs, companion programs, social projects and courses of action for going with
visitors specific select topic meals

Varying media recording of the occasion appears and unique amusements

extraordinary night venues Transportation - meet and welcome administrations amid
all entries Security Visa application administrations

SOTC Trade Fair Tours:-

SOTC Trade Fair Tours is a division that exclusively caters only to the
necessities and prerequisites of the sharp businessperson going by or
showing in International exchange fairs. Increment in the quantity of
Indian members and guests to different International shows to contend at a
worldwide level affirm enormous potential for Group Outbound Travel. In
the previous couple of years SOTC Trade Fair Tours has effectively
composed designations to different International exchange fairs, which has
helped in making mindfulness and procuring a notoriety in the business
sector. The endeavors and quality in offering the best quality
administrations have been perceived by the 'Indo German Chamber of
Commerce', Industry Associations and International Exhibition Organizers,
and so forth by naming SOTC Trade Fair Tours as their restrictive authority
operator in India. SOTC Trade Fair Tours has given another measurement
to the exchange reasonable guests by giving worth included
administrations, for example, affirmed convenience amid the reasonable
period, Indian suppers, alternative to pay in simple regularly scheduled
payments, processing plant visits and so on - this and more to a great
degree appealing and aggressive costs.

Major Hospitals:-
Every restorative examination are led on the most recent, innovatively progressed
demonstrative gear. Stringent quality certification practices guarantee dependable
and excellent test outcomes the central urban communities pulling in remote patients
to India are Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Chennai. Similarly, the
specialty hospitals excelling in the medical tourism industry in the country are:*
Fortis Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre Limited, New Delhi* All India
Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi* Manipal Heart Foundation, Bangalore* B. M.
Birla Heart Research Centre, Kolkata* Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai*
Wockhardt Hospitals* Christian Medical College, Vellore* Asian Heart Institute,
Mumbai* PD Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai* Jaslok
Hospital, Mumbai* Apollo Hospital, Delhi* Apollo Cancer Hospital, Chennai

MEDICAL PACKAGES
The human services segment in India has seen a colossal development in
foundation in the private and willful division. The private division which
was exceptionally unassuming in the early stages, has now turned into a
thriving industry furnished with the most cutting edge best in class
innovation available to its. It is evaluated that 75-80% of social insurance
administrations and interests in India are presently given by the private
area. An additional in addition to have been that India has one of the
biggest pharmaceutical commercial ventures on the planet. It is self-
sufficient in drug production and exports drugs to more than 180 countries.* Bone
Marrow Transplant* Brain Surgery* Cancer Procedures (Oncology)* Cardiac Care*
Cosmetic Surgery* Dialysis and Kidney Transplant* Drug Rehabilitation* Gynaecology
& Obstetrics* Health Checkups* Internal/Digestive Procedures* Joint
Replacement Surgery* Nuclear Medicine* Neurosurgery & Trauma Surgery*
Preventive Health Care* Refractive Surgery* Osteoporosis* Spine Related* Urology*
Vascular Surgery* Gall Bladder stones surgery ( Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy )*
Hernia surgery ( Laparoscopic mesh repair )* Piles ( Stapled Hemorrhoidectomy )*
Varicose Veins surgery* Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy for
Hyperhidrosis
* Laparoscopic Appendicectomy* Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy* Laparoscopic
Fundoplication for Hiatus Hernia* Laparoscopic Banding of stomach for Morbid
Obesity* Laparoscopic splenectomy

Other packages include:

· Hip-Knee replacement surgeries and other orthopedic surgeries.
· Bone marrow transplantation surgery.
· Heart surgery packages like Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology, Open Heart Surgery,
angiographies and Angioplasties.
· Treatments of different skin problems including skin grafting.

The services provided by the host country’s hospital/ organisation

are:
- Put in touch with a world class Private hospital or Nursing home and the doctor &
fix up an appointment with the doctor at the hospital.

- Receive you at the airport and provide transportation to the hotel and
for the rest of the days during your stay here.

- Provide accommodation in a hotel as per your choice and budget near

the Nursing Home or the Private hospital.

- We can arrange for another place to stay or a rejuvenating sight-seeing

tour while your mother recovers after the treatment.

- In addition to the increasingly top class medical care, a big draw

for foreign patients is also the very minimal or hardly any waitlist as is
common in European or American hospitals. In fact, priority treatment
is provided today in Indian hospitals.

STEPS OF SEEKING TREATMENT WITH MEDICAL TOURISM:-

1. Is the medicinal infirmity reasonable for treatment in a nation unique in

relation to yours the patient's own particular nation? The response to this
inquiry will be founded on joined data from your own particular specialist
and the abroad doctor.

2. Illnesses that require a one shot treatment like surgery for nerve stones,
hernia, heaps, varicose veins, hysterectomy, adrenalectomy, nephrectomy,
thyroidectomy, joint substitution and so on are more reasonable for
restorative tourism.
3. The infirmity ought to be such that a subsequent meet-up not be vital
and you may not have to visit the nation again to µ tie up free ends.

4. The patient/traveler ought to be generally all around ok to have the

capacity to use the tourism piece of it. Else you could simply go to the
healing facility straightforwardly for treatment.

5. For the most part arranged elective surgery for which there might be a
long holding up rundown in your nation is most appropriate for medicinal
tourism.

6. Settle on the nation, healing center and specialist who might treat. This
data would be accessible through the net or from suggestion by another
patient. Visit the site of the doctor's facility and specialist is the following
stride. Composing and getting some information about their preparation
and involvement in the method alongside the cost suggestions is essential.

CONCLUSION

Who might have suspected that in only five years, medicinal tourism in India will
construct an astounding notoriety as one of the nation's regularly gone by outside
patients for moderate plastic surgery and other social insurance medications? Quite
recently when restorative travel was something alarming and improbable, now
American patients are asking why they haven't considered traveling to different
nations like India where plastic surgery expense is to a great degree shabby. As per
defenders, plastic surgery in India is equivalent to much that is accessible in the U.S. be
that as it may, with extraordinary distinction in plastic surgery cost. Due to India's best
conversion standard with dollar, official figures demonstrate that among the 55
nations that goes to the nation for reasonable plastic surgery, the greatest
development in business originates from the UK and United States. Disappointed by
long holding up rundown and high plastic surgery cost, patients started considering
the choice of traveling to another country for medicinal consideration medications
In2003, James Campbell, an occupant from Aberdeen shire, went to Ahmedabad for a
twofold knee substitution at not as much as a large portion of the expense of private
treatment in the UK, in the wake of arranging the excursion and treatment himself as a
result of the enormous holding up rundown before he can get his surgery. On the off
chance that patients like James who needs quick operations, they will more often than
not pay an extra 20-50 percent of the UK cost for brief surgeries. A solitary knee
substitution in the UK costs about£9,000 yet a Madras facility cites the operation at
£2,150. The quantity of outside patients that desire plastic surgery in India expands
quite a long time. To maintain the country's operation to offer high caliber and
moderate plastic surgery, private medicinal services organizations in India
contributed about £50 million to procure best in class gear's in the previous decade.
The nature of therapeutic offices and staff in India is progressively evaluated globally
and 75 percent of medicinal services administrations in India are currently in private
area and propelled private clinics have been set up in the real urban areas of the
nation.

Today, plastic surgery in India is one of the regarded resources of restorative tourism.
Actually, a Confederation of Indian Industry report predicts that restorative tourism
will be worth $1 billion to the economy by 2012.To know more about plastic surgery
in India, please visit GoSculptura India and get your free specialist conference and a
free see of how you will look like after the surgery. Gosculptura offers restorative get-
away bundles and will deal with all your essential needs in India.

RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Greater part of the patients originate from US, UK and Africa. So healing
center ought to attempt to catch the quantity of patients from other than
these nation.

2. Most of the patients are wanted the Cardiac, Orthopedic and Gastro
Enterological illnesses, so our healing centers ought to grow super strength
ward and office to catch more number of patients.

3. Our clinics ought to create elective treatment ward or office like

Ayurveda, Yunani, Spa and Yoga alongside the restoration focuses.

4. To expand the Advertisement of the Hospitals by utilizing diverse media.

5. As a large portion of the patients are fulfilled by the Treatment and

Facilities gave by the clinics, so doctor's facilities ought to look after them.

6. for patients who are disappointed with the treatment and offices, healing
centers ought to attempt to know the explanations for the disappointment.

7. Doctor's facility ought to diminish the Professional Attitude towards the

NRIs patients.

8. Build travel office for the remote sightseers

9. visa-on-landing office for vacationers from chose nations.

10. Enhance and modernize airplane terminal foundation and
administrations.

11. Make increasingly ad by utilizing diverse Medias to catch more pieces of

the pie.

12. Make open mindfulness about monetary and social advantages of

tourism.

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