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Title
Medical tourism in Kolkata, Eastern India / Anu Rai.
ISBN
9783319732725 (electronic book)
3319732722 (electronic book)
9783319732718
Published
Cham : Springer, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxv, 246 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-73272-5 doi
10.1007/978-3-319-73
Call Number
RA793.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.1
Summary
This book examines the global influence and scope of medical tourism with an emphasis on the city of Kolkata in Eastern India as an emerging destination at the regional scale. Through a geographical research perspective, the book discusses the importance of the phenomenon of medical tourism including recent trends, policies, and scale studies to develop sustainable strategies for medical tourism at particular micro destinations. In nine chapters, readers will become familiar with the multi-billion dollar industry of medical tourism and the problems currently associated with medical tourism at multiple scales. The trends of medical tourism in and around the city of Kolkata are used to demonstrate the roles of infrastructure and stakeholders in implementing feasible and sustainable medical tourism in an emerging destination. The first two chapters of the book provide an introduction to medical tourism and the methodologies of this study. Then chapters three through nine focus on medical tourism in the case of Kolkata to discuss the regional applications and developments of medical tourism. Topics addressed include medical tourism facilities, stakeholders and tourists, guest-host relationships, an assessment of development versus risk, and an evaluation of strategies to manage rising medical tourism in Kolkata. The concluding chapter discusses future strategies that could be used to implement the potentialities of a metropolitan city as a medical tourism destination, based on studies done in Kolkata. Readers who will find this work of interest include students, practitioners, geographers, and researchers and policymakers engaged in the medical tourism industry.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 11, 2019).
Series
Global perspectives on health geography.
Chapter 1-Medical tourism: an introduction
Chapter 2-Materials, methods and study design
Chapter 3-Kolkata: a medical tourism destination in Eastern India
Chapter 4-Medical tourism facilities in Kolkata
Chapter 5-Mediators in Kolkata medical tourism industry
Chapter 6-Medical tourists in Kolkata
Chapter 7-Evaluating guest-host relationship in medical tourism industry
Chapter 8-Development versus risk in medical tourism: an assessment
Chapter 9-Management of medical tourism in Kolkata: strategies and evaluation
Chapter 10-Summary and conclusion.
