Medical Tourism: Indian and Global Perspectives

Manjeet Singh

Jan 2022 · BFC Publications

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This book mainly focuses on History and profile of the medical tourists visited India. The profile includes sex, age, occupation, type of treatment underwent, accompany details etc. The facilities and services offered by Indian hospitals like type of treatment offered, hospitals experience, accommodation detail, hospitality care, patient care, hospital accreditation, Medical human resource detail and activities of medical tourism department are provided. The average cost of various medical treatments in India has collected through a research and it was compared with the cost of treatment with Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, UK, USA, Canada. The percentage savings made by taking treatment in India also highlighted. The health care crisis in United States of America, Branding Inbound International Medical Tourism and Institutional role in promoting medical tourism in India also included in this book. To understand the perception of the inbound international patients about the services and facilities provided in the hospitals, a research was conducted, and the outcome of the research is presented. Based on the findings of the research, suggestions are provided for better development of medical tourism in India. The details of book will be highly useful for the students pursuing hospital and medical tourism education, and tourism researchers in academic institutions, medical tourism planners and strategic managers in Hospitals dealing international patients.

About the author

Prof. Dr. S. Kumaran is working as Professor in Alliance School of Business, Alliance University, Bangalore. He has almost three decades of teaching, research and corporate. . He holds a Ph. D degree in Medical Tourism Management. He has published three books on Tourism management and has published more than fifty research papers in Journals and conferences. He is also a research supervisor and successfully guided two doctoral students. He has been awarded with the IARDO RACE 2019 Bangkok Award for Best Researcher in Social Science

Manjeet Singh is presently working as Faculty in the Department of TTM, Central University of Jammu. He is a Science graduate from the University of Jammu and completed MTM from SHTM, University of Jammu. He has extensive practical experience is the field of tourism and travel management and has worked with corporate like Yatra.com, Orbitz and Travel Boutique Online to name a few. .

Dr. S. Chinnam Reddy, a voracious reader and an ardent academician, is currently working with National Institute of Tourism & Hospitality Management as Director, Hyderabad. Dr. S. Chinnam Reddy is Ph. D. in Operations Research from Gujarat University and has over 25 years of vast and rich experience in teaching and research. Seven scholars have been awarded PhDs under his guideship. Dr. Reddy to his credit has published more than 25 papers in National and International journals.

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