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RIYADH – Health tourism accounted for over SR800 million out of the total spending by both citizens and expatriates for domestic tourism in 2007, a recent report from the Supreme Plugins 2Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) said.

At the same time, foreign tourists spent over SR400 million to undergo treatment in the Kingdom during the period, said the report. Medical tourism is a combination of wellness and health care coupled with leisure and relaxation, which is aimed at rejuvenating a person mentally, physically and emotionally by removing him from his daily routine to a relaxed environment in an exotic location, Gulf News reported Friday.

The SCTA report showed that there are several medical firms and centers to promote medical tourism in the main cities of the Kingdom. These include Prince Sultan City for Humanitarian Services, Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habeeb Center, Kingdom Hospital, Dallah Hospital, Ibn Rushd Hospital, Saudi German Hospital, Qari Medical Center for Blood Diseases and Tumors, Dr Abdul Rahman Baksh Hospitals, and Eid Clinic.

There are several other clinics springing up in various regions of the Kingdom. Abdul Rahman Al-Jassas, SCTA’s executive director for tourism development in the Riyadh region, said that Saudi Arabia is also making giant strides in business and conference tourism.

“Riyadh hosted more than 50 percent of these types of tourism activities Kingdom-wide during the last year,” he said. He attributed this to the quality of the infrastructure facilities in Riyadh for hosting such events, such as large conference halls and exhibition venues.

Al-Jassas said that Riyadh will witness the opening of a number of hotels over the next two years, thus increasing the capacity to accommodate more tourists.

“There will be more participation by the younger generation, especially students and volunteers in event management in Riyadh in future. This will be a big boost for developing their qualities for voluntary work and service to society,” he said.

In another development, SCTA and the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice signed a cooperation agreement for the development of domestic tourism. Under the agreement, both organizations will increase cooperation.

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New Delhi: India is set to earn Rs.80 billion ($1.87 billion) a year in foreign exchange from medical tourism by 2012, according to a study by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assoc ham).

With easy visa facilities to overseas patients coupled with best emerging medical infrastructure facilities, India’s medical tourism can become a lead foreign exchange earner and the earnings will grow from the existing Rs.35 billion annually to Rs.80 billion a year by 2012, Assoc ham president Venugopal N. Hoot said.

The study on Prospects of Medical Tourism for Higher Forex Earning was done under the supervision of the health committee of Assoc ham, headed by Sir Gaga Ram Hospital chairman B.K. Rio.

“The primary reasons as to why medical tourism would flourish in India include much lower medical treatment costs for various ailments, such as bone narrow transparent, bye-pass surgery, knee surgery and liver transplant as compared to western countries,” Hoot said in a statement Monday.

“The cost of medical treatment is very high in the western countries, forcing patients from Africa, the Gulf and various other Asian countries to explore medical treatment in India,” he said.

He noted that the medical infrastructure in the country has geared up to provide them non-subsidized medical treatment at far lower costs.

Other factors boosting medical tourism include India’s strength in traditional treatment in homeopathy, naturopathy, ayurvedic and inane systems which are becoming very popular because they do not have side effects, said Hoot.

He called for more allocation for the health sector which would lead to proliferation of new health facilities and centers of medical excellence, which in turn will finally be able to service overseas patients.

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