The LG Travel News Roundup: The Rise of Medical Tourism
Weekly Travel News — By Alex B on March 2, 2012 at 6:00 amBy Susmita Baral
LG News Intern
Missed the big travel stories of the week? And the weird, wacky and insignificant ones? We’ve got your roundup right here…
Piña Coladas and Pec Implants
You’ve heard of voluntourism and ecotourism, and now you can add surgery-tourism to the list. Apparently, “jet set surgery” is a rising trend where tourists go to a destination (the most popular being Rio de Janiero in Brazil) for low cost plastic surgery and a luxurious stay in an exotic destination. But all is not perfect in this seemingly wonderful scheme: Traveling abroad for procedures can be risky and life-threatening since each country has their own regulations for products and qualifications for doctors. Source: Huffington Post
The 2012 calendar year may see more tourism, but certainly not due to the cheap airfare. Airlines are hiking their fares for the third time this year. The airlines include United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta, U.S. Airways and Virgin America. The reason behind the hike is the increased fuel costs. Source: USA Today
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3 Comments
It seems “The Lost Girls” and Travel For Boomers is on the same wave-length. We just published a post about medical and dental care “vacations” as well. I’m putting link to you article on our blog. Here’s the link to our story:
http://www.travelforboomers.com/2012/03/01/medical-and-dental-vacations-tourism-with-a-purpose-2/
P.S. Love the name of your site!
Traveling to get surgery seems like a huge risk to me. So much can go wrong with a surgery when you have developed a relationship with your surgeon over many consultations, know the procedures of the hospital and have a support system to help you recover, it just seems unreasonably dangerous to travel to get an elective surgery.
The Rise of Medical Tourism is help me in medical fitness. On the other way this create totally change in my life.
regards,
Travelling