Medscape: Emerging Notion of Medical Tourism Landscape in Geographical Studies

The global rise in the medical tourism business has reshaped and redistributed the resources at the micro-level and created its landscape. Here, medical technology is advanced, affordable, and available to all. Popularly known as "medscapes", these medical tourism landscapes are evolving to serve the dire needs of patients . Perhaps, The role and contribution of medical tourism to reshaping the natural and socio-economic landscapes at the neighborhood scale is yet to gain proper attention in academia. This letter aims to invite scholarly attention to this emerging notion of the medical tourism landscape in geographical studies by revisiting some of the existing literature.