The Great Evolution
The emergence of health tourism as we find today has a long
history. Though people did travel since ages in search of health
services, it can’t be labeled as health tourism as such since those
travels were quite limited and not focused. The first recorded
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instance of medical tourism dates back to thousands of years
when Greek pilgrims travelled from all over the Mediterranean
to the small territory in the Saronic Gulf called Epidauria, the
sanctuary of the healing God Asclepius. In eighteenth century
England, patients visited spas which dispensed health-giving