i-Transition Worldwide (India) and One HealthCare Worldwide, US, are organising the first edition of Indian Medical Tourism Conference and Alliance 2012 (IMTCA 2012) in Hyderabad from November 2, 2012.
The two-day conference, which is expected to see international participation from eight countries, including the US, UK, France, Turkey, Thailand, the Philippines, Dubai and Fiji, will largely cover sessions on topics that would cater to global healthcare and focus on positioning Hyderabad as a medical tourism hub of India.
“The conference aims to provide a common platform to all healthcare-tourism industry professionals to exchange and know the best practices from across the world, and help Indian healthcare to raise its standard to command a larger revenue share of this multi-billion dollar industry,” Varsha Lafargue, founder and chairperson, IMTCA and i-Transition Worldwide, said in a release on Tuesday.
According to a Technopak study, the market size of medical value travel would cross Rs 62,000 crore by 2020 and Rs 2 lakh crore by 2025 from Rs 4,500 crore in 2010.
India could be hosting 2.4 million medical tourists by 2020, four-times the number it catered to in 2010, and this figure is projected to increase to 4.9 million tourists by 2025.