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INDIA EMERGES AS MEDICAL TOURISM HUB
India
could move to become a major medical tourism destination because of
comparatively
lower
expenditure in providing world class treatment and surgery in high
risk ailment such as heart and kidney disorders.....
TOURIST
PREFER COUNTRYSIDE TO MANALI
Peak
summer congestion and traffic jam in Manali, tourists are skirting
the Kullu-Manali right bank approach and making beeline for resorts and
villag guesthouses on the left bank of Bias where a monastery, the art
gallery and heritage village of Naggar have emerged as major tourist
attractions..
RAJSTHAN PLANS TWO NEW AIRPORTS TO BOOST TOURISM
The Rajasthan government has planned to set up two new airports in the state and upgrade two existing ones to boost tourism. The two new domestic airports have been planned in Kota and Kishangarh near Ajmer while the Jaipur and Udaipur airports are likely to be granted international status in 2006.
MEDICAL
TOURISM TO ATTRACT 1M VISITORS BY 2010
THE
Ministry of Tourism has taken several steps to promote the country as a
major health destination to attract an additional one million medical
tourists by 2010, the Minister of State for Tourism, Ms Renuka Chowdhury,
said here, on Wednesday. Addressing a meeting of the Consultative
Committee on Tourism, Ms Chowdhury said that these arrivals could bring in
extra foreign exchange. The Ministry was also working on a campaignto to
be launched in the overseas market to project India as an
attractive medical tourism destination, the Minister said
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