| While Thailand is known as the "Land of Smiles" it is in | | | | seeing an opening in a growing market and setting up |
| effect much more than this. It combines third world | | | | facilities to fill that market, while here in Thailand the |
| pricing with first world standards of service. This | | | | market grew organically. Private hospitals, clinics and |
| applies especially in medical care. Long before the | | | | health spa's were developed over the years in |
| term "Medical Tourism" was coined, tourists were | | | | response to tourist needs and in turn the tourists |
| discovering the high level of service and care in Thai | | | | discovered that the Thai values and traditions made |
| hospitals. | | | | the services provided in these centers much superior |
| Many countries in Asia now style themselves as | | | | to what they were used to back home, and at a |
| 'Medical Tourist Centers', but the difference between | | | | fraction of the cost. |
| them and Thailand is that those countries are now | | | | |