Medical tourism is a tourist trip that is carried out with the aim of improving health and involves staying in a spa resort. The purpose of health tourism is the prevention of recreation and leisure. It is characterized by a longer duration of travel visiting fewer places and a longer duration of stay in one place, i.e., along with leisure activities, the vacationer prefers to rest.
Health and medical tourism is one of the most popular types of recreation. This is due to its accessibility for all age groups, as well as the many health benefits that visiting health resorts brings. Health and medical tourism is divided into many categories:
- space therapy;
- phototerapia;
- airotherapy;
- thalassotherapy;
- spa therapy; other types.
Its main directions are climatotherapy, balneotherapy and mud therapy.
Climatotherapy
It is based on the positive impact on health of the meteorological and climatic factors inherent in the location chosen for vacation. In addition to the general effect on the body, the use of sun baths, sea baths and so on is widely practiced. Even a temporary change in climate triggers adaptive mechanisms in the body, which in many cases leads to treatment of the released summer diseases.
Balneotherapy
It involves the treatment and rehabilitation of vacationers with natural and artificial mineral waters. Their use normalizes blood composition and has a positive effect on overall health. Often, health tourism from mineral water sources is practiced by people with disorders of the musculoskeletal system, the cardiovascular system, and the thoracic system.
Mud treatment
Provides for the prevention of various diseases with the help of external application of mineralized mud-like substances. We are talking about clay, silt deposits, decomposed peat, sulfide mud, etc. Mud therapy improves skin circulation, normalizes the activity of the endocrine system, improves regeneration processes and improves immunity.