The Minister of Tourism has informed the Lok Sabha about the <\/span>National Strategy and Roadmap for Medical and Wellness Tourism.<\/span><\/p>\n Medical Tourism<\/strong>: It may be defined as \u2018activities related to travel and hosting a foreign tourist who stays at least one night at the destination region for the purpose of maintaining, improving or restoring health through medical intervention\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n Wellness Tourism: <\/b>It is defined as \u201ctravel associated with the goal of maintaining or enhancing one\u2019s personal well-being and includes the pursuit of physical, mental, spiritual or environmental wellness while travelling for either leisure or business.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Aim: <\/b>To provide an institutional framework, strengthening the ecosystem for medical and wellness tourism, developing a brand and ensuring quality assurance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Key Features of the Strategy:<\/b><\/p>\n \u2013 Health insurance <\/b>portability by way of extended insurance coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Developing medical clusters<\/b> for foreign patients.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Enhancing Accessibility <\/b>for medical value travel\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Development of special wellness tourism zones<\/b> may be encouraged at the state level offering comprehensive end-to-end services for health, medical and wellness using private\/public partnerships.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Capacity building: <\/b>With the anticipated increase in inflow, the groundwork for policy alignment, infrastructure development as well as skilling needs to be expedited to be future-ready.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Online medical tourism website:<\/b> The existing website needs a major makeover with the integration of all services a medical traveller would need, while also carrying advisories, regulations and information for transparency and ease.<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article \u201c<\/b>Ministry of Tourism has formulated a National Strategy and Roadmap for Medical and Wellness Tourism: Union Minister<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in PIB <\/b>on 15th Mar 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Minister of Tourism has informed the Lok Sabha about the National Strategy and Roadmap for Medical and Wellness Tourism. What is Medical Tourism and Wellness Tourism? Medical Tourism: It may be defined as \u2018activities related to travel and hosting a foreign tourist who stays at least one night at the… Continue reading Ministry of Tourism has formulated a National Strategy and Roadmap for Medical and Wellness Tourism: Union Minister<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,956,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-174375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Medical Tourism and Wellness Tourism?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the National Strategy and Roadmap for Medical and Wellness Tourism?<\/b><\/h5>\n