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Medical tourism traditionally includes fun, leisure, and the activities for relaxation along with health or wellness services that are designed for the consumer well-being. Tourist-shaped patients often look for ways to reduce expenditures on health-related treatments that may include medical, dental, or surgical operations. The medical tourists tend to visit the areas that can offer better services in exchange of cheaper costs and consume less time frame. The touristic interests of medical tourism are based on the economic, social, or political issues oriented global market places. Medical tourism is achieving wider significance and is motivated with the interventions of numerous factors including financial gains. In addition, the medical tourism through the relevant contributions from other factors as financial and sociopolitical issues has been responsible for giving rise to numerous niche markets. This has offered the diversification and interventions of medical tourism services. The wider range of medical tourism products is comprised of superficial treatments like massages or facials to riskier or invasive surgical procedures like the organ transplantation or heart surgery. This conceptual study outlines both the global and Asian trends of medical tourism. The study then incorporates innovative technologies in relation to the promotion of medical tourism in selected countries as India and Bangladesh. Critical discussions are offered in line with the arguments to establish the application of innovative technologies as the most effective facilitator of medical tourism in Asia. The study concludes by stating that the acceptance of more innovative technologies will obviously have positive effects on this niche.
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Avi, M.A.R., Hassan, A. (2022). Medical Tourism in Bangladesh and Innovative Technology Application. In: Hassan, A. (eds) Handbook of Technology Application in Tourism in Asia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2210-6_43
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