Medical tourism has emerged as the most promising new industry in India, offering bright prospects for both the healthcare and the tourism industry. With this distinct view of the market potential and external competition healthcare providers are moving forward to realize and maximize on this opportunity. Apart from the provision of best quality medical services, they are also keen on encouraging patient access by various non-medical services and marketing options. Most healthcare providers are offering compact medical tourism packages inclusive of accommodation, transfers, and bilingual assistance and travel options within India.

Well-developed health care systems and improvements in technology have supported the growth of medical tourism in India. It has increasingly become a given fact that medical tourists expect the highest quality of care, having traveled great distances to seek world-class doctors and hospitals. This clearly explains the need of a well-organized medical tourism package that will take care of all the needs of the patient from the initial point of facilitating the international patients, through the time spent in an overseas hospital, and well into the aftercare stage. Leading healthcare providers have expounded on this by branching their medical expertise into super-specialization in order to carve out special medical tourism packages to make the patients stay a memorable one.

The medical tourism packages are specially designed to closely intertwine both the tourism and healthcare sectors of India. With the advantage of the rich culture, glorious past, traditions, values, diverse manners and food habits, India stands out as the ideal destination for combining a holiday tour with a medical checkup. These medical tourism service packages are implemented through successful partnerships among best quality hospitals, agents, governments and accommodation and travel service providers. A sincere commitment on the part of the alliances allows each of these medical tourism service providers to focus on their competencies and alleviate the level of competition.