Q.What is meant by medical tourism?

Medical tourism combines a specific purpose of travel — obtaining treatment — with the wider hospitality and tourism services a visiting patient also uses. …

Medical tourism is a specific and fast-growing category of tourism defined by the primary purpose of the traveller's journey rather than by leisure alone.

It refers to patients travelling from their home country to another country — India being a significant global destination — specifically to obtain medical treatment. Patients typically choose this route because the treatment is available at a substantially lower cost than in their home country, while often being of comparable or high quality, and in some cases because a particular treatment or specialist expertise may not be as readily available at home. Alongside the medical treatment itself, a medical tourist also makes use of the destination country's wider tourism and hospitality services — travel, accommodation, food and, often, some recovery-period leisure travel — so medical tourism sits at the intersection of the health-care and tourism service industries. …

Describing it merely as "tourists visiting hospitals" without capturing that the primary motive for …