About medical tourism

More and more people are choosing to travel outside their country to benefit from medical tourism services. What includes the term ”tourism” in a definition, which would mean only ”travel for treatment purposes”, is that patients choose to extend their stay at the destination after the end of the treatment or to request, with it, programs for visiting and discovering the tourist destination.

If at the beginning of the use of this term, trips took place from less developed countries, where certain medical procedures were not available, to countries with highly developed medical systems, this tendency has changed in recent years.

The low fares of the air tickets, the increase of the quality level of the medical services in countries where their tariff is more accessible, but also the desire to use as much as possible the free time have led to a balance of the exchange of patients, who choose to travel to follow medical treatments.

Medical tourism in Romania is not something new. Whether we refer to the spa treatments, popularized by the communist regime, or the trip under the false name of the actress Claudia Cardinale in Romania, to benefit from the care of Doctor Ana Aslan, thousands of patients cross the borders of the country every year, in order to take care of their health. 

The existence of a large number of medical specialists, hospitals and clinics, as well as the international recognition of the medical education system in Romania have made our country a growing destination on the world map of medical tourism.

The medical tourism packages in Romania benefit not only from the competitive advantage of the reduced cost for medical procedures, but also from very good and advantageous adjacent tourism products.

Air connections with the main European capitals are present in all the major medical centres of Romania, the distances from the airport to the city centres are short, the hotel infrastructure is well developed and with a price-quality ratio superior to many Western countries.

A plus in the development of medical tourism in Romania is presented by the multitude of opportunities for spending leisure time and the tourist attractions known worldwide.