Medicine and tourism as agents of medical tourism

Abstract

© 2020, Advanced Scientific Research. All rights reserved. In article approaches to studying medical tourism are considered. On the basis of the analysis the conclusion is drawn that, despite the main mission of medical tourism as instrument of improvement of the population, his key agent is the tourist market. This segment of the market is capable to organize a travel to the vacation spot and to provide necessary service, and receiving medical services predetermines only the purpose and can influence the choice of the vacation spot. Scientists in the field of tourism, health care and economy consider medical tourism one of the most perspective types of the industry in the 21st century that causes development of medicine, improvement of quality of the provided medical services, improvement of efficiency of health care systems, development of the sphere of tourism and the industries accompanying it, increase in a contribution to GDP of the region/country.