Medical tourism links healthcare with accommodation, transport, food services, tourism intermediation and other local activities. It can therefore generate demand beyond the clinic, but its contribution to regional development is conditional rather than automatic. Medical-tourism counts are sensitive to definitions, and international evidence also shows that output gains can be partly offset if scarce healthcare resources are diverted from residents
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