India: Medical tourism profile
Overview
Inbound medical tourism 2019 | 200,000 |
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Tourists 2019 | 10.9 million |
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Population 2021 | 1393.4 million |
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India offers a huge variety of treatment from the latest technology to traditional medicine, in a vast number of hospitals and other locations.
Inbound
Medical tourism numbers in
2008 |
113,689 |
2009 |
112,389 |
2010 |
155,944 |
2011 |
138,803 |
2012 |
171,021 |
2013 |
236,898 |
2014 |
139,447 |
2015 |
233,918 |
2016 |
427,010 |
2017 |
495,056 |
2018 |
640,798 |
2019 |
697453 |
2020 |
Not Provided |
2021 |
Not Provided |
Source: Government of India 2022
Outbound
Medical tourism numbers out
Under 10,000 each year is a very rough estimate.
Environment
Medical tourism promotion
The tourism ministry’s plan will present India as a preferred destination for medical tourism, cutting across the streams of Allopathy, Ayurveda, Naturopathy and Yoga. Discussions are underway between the National Medical and Wellness Tourism Board and Union Culture and Tourism Minister Prahlad Patel.
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Medical tourism news and opinion
- Global travel trends 2023
Tourism is set to return to pre-pandemic levels in some regions in 2023. “Will medical tourism follow?”, asks IMTJ analyst Ian Youngman. After stronger than expected recovery in 2022, 2023 could see international tourism arrivals return to […]
- India grows Ayurveda offer to medical travellers
Public Ayurveda medicine and research institution, All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), has opened in Goa as a medical tourism destination. It aims to be a gateway to Ayurveda for medical travellers. Goa is a favourite destination for domestic […]
- Bridging the credibility gap in wellness tourism
Wellness is big business and there is no doubt that there’s growth. But are wellness and wellness tourism now facing similar challenges to the medical tourism sector around therapies and ethics? Keith Pollard, IMTJ editor in chief, thinks so. In […]