June 2, 2008

Promoting Ayurveda - Health Tourism in India

* India is emerging as a great destination for medical tourism because it has several pull factors like Excellent medical treatment at low cost, easy accessibility, picturesque locations for excellent holiday, etc.

* The medical tourism market in India is expected to grow to $2 billion a year by 2012-13...

* The word Ayurveda is composed of two sanskrit terms - Ayu meaning 'life' and Veda meaning 'knowledge'. Therefore Ayurveda means the knowledge of life or science of life. It is defined as the science, through which one can obtain knowledge about the useful and harmful ways of life, happy and miserable types of life, conditions that lead to the above types of life, as well as, the very nature of life...Read More


2 comments:

Siddharth said...

Certainly medical tourism in India offers very affordable medical treatment with good care and luxury. One can have a very good idea of the difference in cost at www.valuemedicare.com/costcomparison.html

Fred said...

The largest community about ayurveda:
http://www.ayurveda-forums.org