Medical tourism generally started with tourists who needed medical centers in visiting countries for small procedures like some plastic surgery of minor nature. From there the trend started to grow and ultimately reached its peak in terms of transparency, systems, services, processes, quality assurance, bench marks and continuity of care.
Medical tourism is one of the newest trends in tourism industry. Rising costs in the field of health and increase in waiting-time has forced many people from the West to fly to countries mainly in Asia and South America to get medical facilities.