02 December 2018 02 Dec 2018

Reproductive tourism

Although travelling abroad for the sake of one's health is centuries old—Lourdes, for instance, or ‘taking the waters’ in spas—the concept of so-called ‘medical tourism’ has increased in popularity in recent years Lunt et al (2011: 2) define medical tourism as ‘when consumers elect to travel across international borders with the intention of receiving some form of medical treatment … [it] most commonly includes dental care, cosmetic surgery, elective surgery and fertility treatment’