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Published on : Thursday, February 18, 2021
Creative Travel is endorsing medical tourism with an eye on a tourism restart at the later part of 2021. It’s helping its promotions on the recent decision of the government to widen the scope of the visas for medical tourism to include natural and alternative medical treatments, like Yoga.
In its recent newsletter, it represents the case for an early start mentioning a recent government declaration that allows “foreign nationals to visit India on medical visas for Ayurveda and Naturopathy treatments.”
The Creative Travel newsletter emailed to a global B2B travel planners list explains “this is a great time to take a detox trip to India, and specifically Kerala where wellness centres and retreats have opened up with enhanced safety and hygiene measures.”
However complexities still loom for travellers even if they meet the criteria for medical tourism visa entry. Foreign aircrafts from the Middle East, Europe and countries in the Asia Pacific are limited. This will impede the efforts to make the flow of medical tourists from traditional source markets.
Besides, domestic flight capacity is highly stressed with reduced number of services between the main Indian cities which is likely to remain for many months to come.
However as a recent report of Times of India noted the government has an eye on restarting international tourism in 2021 and medical tourism is high up the agenda to gain momentum.
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