{"id":255264,"date":"2023-08-08T20:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=255264"},"modified":"2023-08-08T20:23:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:53:49","slug":"ministry-of-tourism-has-formulated-a-national-strategy-and-roadmap-for-medical-and-wellness-tourism-to-boost-medical-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ministry-of-tourism-has-formulated-a-national-strategy-and-roadmap-for-medical-and-wellness-tourism-to-boost-medical-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Tourism has formulated a National Strategy and Roadmap for Medical and Wellness Tourism to boost Medical Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Ministry of Tourism has formulated a National Strategy and Roadmap for Medical and Wellness Tourism to boost Medical Tourism<\/b><b> \u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB on 8th August 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Tourism in order to boost Medical Tourism in the country has formulated a National Strategy and Roadmap for Medical and Wellness Tourism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the National Strategy and Roadmap for Medical and Wellness Tourism?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Aim: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To provide an institutional framework, strengthening the ecosystem for medical and wellness tourism, developing a brand and ensuring quality assurance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Key Pillars:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Strategy has identified the following key pillars to promote India as a destination for medical value travel and wellness tourism.These are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013\u00a0 Develop a brand for India as a wellness destination<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Strengthen the ecosystem for medical and wellness tourism<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Enable digitalization by setting up Online Medical Value Travel (MVT) Portal<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Enhancement of accessibility for Medical Value Travel<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Promoting Wellness Tourism<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013\u00a0 Governance and Institutional Framework<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the ongoing activities going on to promote Medical Tourism in India?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Firstly, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Ministry of Tourism releases global print, electronic and online media campaigns in important and potential markets overseas, under the \u2018Incredible India\u2019 brand-line, to promote various tourism destinations and products of the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Digital promotions are also regularly undertaken on the theme of Medical Tourism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Secondly, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the case of e-Medical Visa and for e-Medical Attendant Visa, triple entry is permitted and extension may be granted up to 6 months on case to case basis on merits of each case by the Foreigners Regional Registration Officers (FRRO)\/Foreigners Registration Officer (FRO) concerned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Thirdly, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Union Ministry of Health is coordinating with other Ministries and stakeholders viz. Hospitals, Medical Value Travel (MVT) facilitators, Insurance Companies, NABH etc to promote medical value travel in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cMinistry of Tourism has formulated a National Strategy and Roadmap for Medical and Wellness Tourism to boost Medical Tourism \u201d\u00a0 published in PIB on 8th August 2023. What is the News? The Ministry of Tourism in order to boost Medical Tourism in the country has formulated a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ministry-of-tourism-has-formulated-a-national-strategy-and-roadmap-for-medical-and-wellness-tourism-to-boost-medical-tourism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ministry of Tourism has formulated a National Strategy and Roadmap for Medical and Wellness Tourism to boost Medical Tourism<\/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":[1566,956,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-255264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","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\/255264","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=255264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}