What is Medical Tourism ? Medical tourism can be broadly defined as provision of ’cost effective’ private medical care in collaboration with the tourism industry for patients needing surgical and other forms of specialized treatment. This process is being facilitated by the corporate sector involved in medical care as well as the tourism industry - both private and public. Medical or Health tourism has become a common form of vacationing‚ and covers a broad spectrum of medical services. It mixes
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Working title The role of food tourism in sustaining regional identity: A case study of Kerala‚ India. Background The theme of this project is to look at the role of food tourism in Kerala‚ India and in particular with reference to regional identity. There are two main questions that will need to be answered in order to understand this. Firstly is food important in sustaining the regional identity of Kerala and if so in what way. The secondary question is whether tourism affects or is affected by
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TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA --- Atul Sinha * Tourism development in India has passed through many phases. At Government level the development of tourist facilities was taken up in a planned manner in 1956 coinciding with the Second Five Year Plan. The approach has evolved from isolated planning of single unit facilities in the Second and Third Five Year Plans. The Sixth Plan marked the beginning of a new era when tourism began to be considered a major instrument for social integration and
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Role of Tourism in India Tourism is travel for recreational‚ leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four (24) hours and not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited.I want to do this! What’s This? Among the various service industries‚ tourism in India
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Healthcare Tourism at Pantai Hospital Health care in Malaysia is considered remarkably well by the standards of World Health Organization (WHO). It is one of the best and a role model for developing nations. It is estimated Malaysia healthcare industry to grow 8% in 2010. In Malaysia‚ medical hospital industry is a highly regulated industry. Prior to September 2010‚ healthcare advertising is restricted. Now‚ marketing via print‚ radio‚ television and digital channels is permitted. Total health
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TOPIC:THE EXOTIC TOURISM IN INDIA WHAT IS TOURISM? Before hitting the target of tourism in india‚let us first know what do we mean by TOURISM.(international).Tourism is travel for recreational‚ leisure‚ or business purposes.What the WTO(World Tourism Organisation) tells is that Tourism is people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes".Now this can be considered as an exact definition
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Rural Tourism and Rural Development. Introduction: Rural tourism in India: Prospects for rural tourism in India: Role in Rural development: Conclusion: Introduction: Indians believe in holidays: The country has among the largest number of public holidays in the world. Yet the most common reason for getting away is to "visit a native place." Migrant workers return to their family farms at harvest time. Others return to their villages for an annual pilgrimage. The concept of a holiday where you
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MASTER’S IN TOURISM MANAGEMENT (SEMESTER III AND IV) MTM (Second Year) Assignments Booklet (2012) January 2012 session and July 2012 session [For students who intend to sit for the June 2012 TEE and December 2012 TEE] MTM-9 TO 15 [pic] School of Tourism and Hospitality Services Management Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi‚ New Delhi – 110 068 DATE OF SUBMISSION OF ASSIGNMENTS
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Culinary Tourism in India What is culinary tourism? Culinary tourism also know as Food tourism is experiencing the food of the country‚ region or area. Culinary tourism is not limited to gourmet food‚ but as getting of unique and memorable eating and drinking experiences. Wine tourism and beer tourism are also regarded as parts of culinary tourism. Culinary tourism in India? The market for culinary tourism to India is growing as the country’s culinary traditions continue to garner increasing
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A Report on MEDICAL TOURISM A Services Marketing Assignment The Task: We‚ Group no. 2‚ had been allotted “HEALTH” as our sector to be worked upon. We for ease of understanding and division and allocation of work‚ sat down together as a team‚ and identified certain areas which we needed to cover and hence‚ each sub sector that was decided to be covered was allocated to each member of the group. My sub-Sector: I was allotted “MEDICAL TOURISM” as my sub sector‚ which I needed to research
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