Medical Tourism
Historical Aspect
- Since the advent of yoga more than 5,000 years ago, India has seen a steady influx of medical tourists and spiritual students looking to learn and utilise this most fundamental and venerated discipline of complementary medicine.
- When the US's New Age movement was only getting started in the 1960s, pilgrims began to choose India as their preferred location. With the resurgence of yoga and Ayurvedic medicine, India became a popular destination for medical tourists.
- Due to rising healthcare costs in the 1980s and 1990s, Americans started looking outside their country for medical care. And around this point, India and ....