Overview
- Identifies the scope of medical tourism in geographical research using the example of Kolkata, India
- Describes methods to map medical tourism demands and market segregation
- Uniquely presents medical tourism as a functionality of destination considering global and micro scales
Part of the book series: Global Perspectives on Health Geography (GPHG)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Medical Tourism in Kolkata, Eastern India
Authors: Anu Rai
Series Title: Global Perspectives on Health Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73272-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73271-8Published: 13 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73272-5Published: 04 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2522-8005
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 246
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Economics, Medical Geography, Economic Geography, Medical Sociology, Human Geography