Third, the international medical tourism strong impetus effect and related industry. Development of international medical tourism can not only promote the development of health service and tourism, will also promote the development of other related industries, such as catering, accommodation, transport, conference and exhibition, entertainment, shopping, medical equipment manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, construction, etc., can effectively pull the macroeconomic growth.The international medical tourism has the dual nature of knowledge-intensive and labor-intensive industries, is one of the important areas to absorb new employment population. According to the world tourism organization, direct practitioners, tourism every increase can indirectly provide five jobs for the society.And associated medical tourism industry more and more impetus effect, not only can create a large number of employment opportunities directly, also can increase the huge indirect employment.According to the Indian industry alliance and McKinsey analysis forecast, medical tourism industry can bring more than 4, 0 million jobs to India.Medical services and tourism ChuangHuiLv is very high, the international medical tourism will both joint, can be in their technology, equipment, and tourism resources without moving direct foreign exchange earning, become a important way of expanding trade in services and increasing the income of foreign exchange.Such as medical tourism in India in 2012 to create foreign exchange revenue of $2.2 billion. At the same time, the international medical tourism has a "consumer goods, consumer international transport" alternative trade characteristic, can break through barriers to the irrational in the current world trade system, is the highest value in the global outsourcing services industry chain of one of the industry. Development of international medical tourism, which is beneficial to further take advantage of the cost of the service sector in China, with the help of a new round of worldwide industrial structure adjustment of an opportunity to promote the development of the domestic high-end services, improve the status of China in the international industrial division of labor.
3.0 Methodology
Through comparing different countries’ medical tourism, different ways of developing the medical tourism, which can serve a good example for Chinese development in medical tourism.
In the whole world, medical tourism in Thailand is most advanced, Thailand has a first-class plastic technology, many tourists scramble.Second, in countries such as India, Indonesia, costa rica, medical tourism is booming.Trend of South Korea, with their own cosmetic advantages, set up a cosmetic surgery center, to absorb medical tourism of tourists.Mauritius is famous for its hot springs spa with its characteristics.Palace Swiss anti-aging center in China "Swiss youth, rejuvenation" tour service projects, the service project is with Shanghai hong he creatures co., technical cooperation, specifically for China's high-end customers to provide more professional of live cells sheep child element injected with rehabilitation medical tourism projects.Traditional international medical tourism is mainly European and American developed countries rely on leading medical technology attract patients in developing countries to go to a doctor.Since the 21st century, with the improvement of the medical service system in developing countries, the international medical tourism in the developed countries the new tendency of patient flow to developing countries.At present, the international medical tourism tourists mainly includes three kinds of state: one is the medical costs of expensive countries (such as the United States), the second is to provide countries with low efficiency of the national health service (e.g., Britain, Canada), three is the medical technology level is relatively backward countries (such as Cambodia, Burma, etc.). Asia, Thailand, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Mexico, Brazil and America is a major medical tourism destination countries.According to boao Asia BBS released 2011 annual meeting of the Asian economic integration report, Asia is the world's most potential medical tourism services market, according to McKinsey & company, 2012 Asian medical tourism income has more than $1, 00 billion.With an ageing population and welfare rigidity, developed countries medical service price rising.Developing countries due to cheap labor, the medical service price is usually lower than the developed countries.Such as heart valve replacement surgery in the United States to spend about $200000, and in India it is only $10000 (including round-trip airfare and a package). For uninsured population and health care not cover items (e.g., mouth, eye, etc.), the cost of developing countries is low with strong appeal.In the implementation of national health service system, people make an appointment to go to a doctor, wait for hospitalization time is very long, if need knee transplant patients have to wait for 18 months, and in India only need 5 days.The patient to developing countries for medical tourism could help their country's medical system is becoming more and more heavy pressure, so the government to promote the development of medical tourism.Such as the UK health departments to subcontract part of the medical service contract to India, the United States of West Virginia law government employees abroad to participate in medical tourism will be rewarded.Similarly, in the face of the rapid growth of insurance fee and insurance payouts increasingly heavy pressure, enterprises and insurance institutions also willing to through Medical service Outsourcing (Medical WBS) encourage the staff to the form of low-cost countries go to a doctor.The government, enterprises and the insurance company to push for the rapid development of international medical tourism laid a good foundation.International medical tourism in developed countries provides a relief medical pressure, cutting benefits of the cost of the platform, a huge cost advantage is to have the conditions for developing countries provides a good opportunity of developing international service trade market, the two promote each other, to jointly promote the rapid development of international medical tourism.
