Medical tourism can be described as a general overseas travel for medical, cosmetic or dental health care. Medical outsourcing, health tourism, medical travel or health travel are all terms used to describe this phenomenon. Depending upon the need, medical trips are made to surgery centers overseas for medical or plastic surgery, or to overseas hospitals and clinics for advanced medical diagnostics, recuperation care or dental care. This phenomenal new method of getting treated has grown extremely popular in nations around the world and involves people traveling to other countries to obtain medical, dental, and surgical care while at the same time touring, exploring and experiencing the attractions of the country one is visiting. It is a growing business in many countries. Foreigners often goes to Egypt to get therapies and treatments, which are extremely expensive in their own countries.

The recent growth in medical tourism has been due to exorbitant costs of healthcare in industrialized nations, ease and affordability international travel, rapidly improving technology and standards of care in many countries, and most importantly the proven safety of healthcare in select foreign nations. With a whole gamut of medics treatments like joint replacements, facial and dental surgeries to cancer care, nations are drawing a stupendous number of patients from abroad to some countries like Egypt and few select Asian countries.