Medical Tourism Medical tourism is a new global niche market that is growing interest to a lot of people in both the medical industry and the tourism industry (Hunter, 2007) and also it can be defined as a form of tourism that involves medical interventions that are substantial and have long-term effects (Connell, 2006). Essentially, it has an attractive potential for people and governments to promote this industry. Therefore, the government attempts to support this industry by setting up infrastructure or facilities for the tourism market. The medical tourism is currently flourishing all over the globe and especially some Asian countries such as Singapore, Thailand, India, Korea, etc. are eager for emerging as a highly developed country in the sphere of medical tourism industry as well as promoting this market. Basically, the major reason to draw attention to develop medical tourism for those countries is that they want to enrich their nationwide image and attain economical benefit...
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