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Health and Medical Tourism
John Connell
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Description for Health and Medical Tourism
Hardcover. 224 pages, Illustrations. With increasing numbers of people travelling abroad for medical or cosmetic procedures, medical tourism is now a growing niche in the tourism market. This book looks at the background and rise of health tourism, new emerging facets of the sector, and examines how health related travel fits into a tourism framework. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: KNSG; MBP. Dimension: 250 x 176 x 20. Weight: 688.
Tourism has long been associated with improved health, resulting in a boom of spas, yoga and rejuvenation treatments. Medical tourism itself is a more recent example of niche tourism, with increasing numbers of people travelling abroad in search of cosmetic enhancement and solutions to various serious medical conditions often by surgery. Medical Tourism looks at the background and rise of health tourism, new emerging facets of the sector, and examines how medical tourism benefits local health care providers, economies and the tourism industry as a whole. It offers a unique overview of an emerging component of the tourist industry and ... Read more
Tourism has long been associated with improved health, resulting in a boom of spas, yoga and rejuvenation treatments. Medical tourism itself is a more recent example of niche tourism, with increasing numbers of people travelling abroad in search of cosmetic enhancement and solutions to various serious medical conditions often by surgery. Medical Tourism looks at the background and rise of health tourism, new emerging facets of the sector, and examines how medical tourism benefits local health care providers, economies and the tourism industry as a whole. It offers a unique overview of an emerging component of the tourist industry and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
CABI
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Wallingford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845936600
SKU
V9781845936600
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
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