When things are called by their real names, the power and enormous potential of the health tourism industry will become clear to us. Health Tourism is the most comprehensive and accurate meaning of multiple services in the health tourism industry, whether ((medical tourism - wellness tourism - facilitated health tourism - training tourism)) The most famous of them was the word medical tourism, which meant medical services and wellness services together, and it is a completely inaccurate term for two completely different types It has been used for a long time and meant providing medical services to visitors to a country for the purpose of medical treatment and environmental healing together, in one of its different forms In it, the person goes to places famous for providing distinguished medical care outside his country, even for one day, or one of the natural healing places such as salt water, hot springs, sulfur baths, hot sand and mud, for the purpose of treatment, relaxation and entertainment. To include all services, the term health tourism has become more general and accurate to include several types, as mentioned above. Health tourism, in its more accurate sense, is widespread in many countries of the world, with its various and diverse types. Our Arab region is famous for its famous medical tourism destinations, such as Jordan for medical and also hospital treatment, and some oases in the Maghreb, which have received the attention of Westerners since the middle of the nineteenth century, such as Tunisia and our sister country Morocco.
We emphasize the necessity of calling this industry by its more comprehensive name (health tourism) due to the diversity of its various sections, which serve each other by receiving these services according to their needs from time to time. Those who come for treatment may also benefit from hospitalization. Those who come for hospitalization and convalescence may benefit from more than one of its various types, which are available in Egypt in most of its various governorates. Medical tourism? (Medical Tourism) It means providing medical or therapeutic services in specialized clinics or sanatoriums or medical centers or modern hospitals that have medical equipment and highly efficient human cadres. Medical tourism is considered an optional or mandatory procedure according to the advice of the specialist doctor, and some may choose it because the services can include all family members, as the patient is treated while the family enjoys its vacation for recreation, for example. Environmental or Ecological Medical Tourism
It is known as providing environmental healing services through natural patterns in treating patients or those wishing to be healed, which depend on natural elements in treating patients and healing them or improving their health and psychological condition :- Such as sulfur water In which the body is immersed in sulfur water or drinking it or inhaling its vapor according to what the specialist doctor sees for each case Or salt water, the most famous of which is sea water It is one of the most famous and oldest types of medical tourism, where the person, whether sick or healthy, is healed with salt water alone or is provided with sand burial sessions after using salt water to benefit from natural minerals such as calcium and magnesium. It is considered useful for treating skin and rheumatic diseases Or burial in sand In which the body is buried except for the face or burying only the feet according to what the specialist sees Or immersion and massage with mud Whether by immersion in mud or massage with it, provided that the mud contains healing properties One of the complementary medicine applications ((Ayurveda - bee stings - strengthening energy centers - Chinese needles - and others)) for the purpose of healing or treating some skin diseases, rheumatism, bone diseases, and others, and these services are provided in one of the specialized environmental healing clinics
Training Tourism: - Training Tourism Countries spend huge amounts of money on training their employees, and consider this a basis for keeping pace with the change and development that occurs in all areas of life at the present time, which enables them to obtain trained workers and distinguished leaders in various fields and thus advance in all sectors - This also allows training and equipping the second row of the upcoming management and discovering talented workers in the entity that seeks to develop itself, especially in the field of health tourism Accessible Health Tourism It is defined as providing medical or hospital health tourism services to people with disabilities and the elderly in a manner that is consistent with their condition of disability or old age - so that the health facility or health resort is equipped with equipment that is compatible with people with disabilities or the elderly, which makes their presence a period of relaxation throughout their presence in the facility From here, when we call things by their correct names, new horizons and job opportunities will open up for us that accommodate the unemployed and create advanced opportunities that advance Egypt and put it in its appropriate place in terms of its history And its enormous potential
