Kerala, the "God's own country" is embellished with tranquil backwaters, tempting beaches and lush green coconut groves. Every year thousands of tourists from across the globe comes here to explore the serene beauty of this southern Indian state. Of late, Kerala has attained a pride of place in the field of medicine. Medical tourism is the new facet of Kerala's tourism industry.

Medical tourism can be defined as "any leisure product where apart from travel package, one gets medical treatment at the best hospitals. The medical treatment for various ailments are packaged with leisure packages at luxurious tourist resorts."

The Kerala state government in collaboration with the various tour operators, tour agents, hoteliers and with the people of medical field is trying to develop kerala as a world class destination for tourism and treatment. Currently, tourism industry of Kerala is promoting itself with several Ayurveda and health packages as because medical tourism has a tremendous potential to boom.

Kerala is renowned worldwide for its alternative medical therapies such as Ayurveda and traditional medicines. Each and every nook and corner of this scenic state has some wonderful centres for Ayurveda treatments. Ayurveda is an ancient form of treatment which enables the patient to rejuvenate and revitalize the mind, body and soul and it has abundant of well trained people who deals in this special form of treatment.

Beside Ayurveda, Kerala has an endless array of experienced allopathic medical professionals and well equipped hospitals that offer treatments of international standard at a very reasonable price. Previously, Indians especially Keralites working in foreign nations such as in Gulf countries always visit Kerala for medical treatment as it doesn't have much affect on their kitty.

Nowadays, even the patients of other countries has started choosing Kerala as a destination for treatment of various diseases due to some special advantages. Kerala has good transportation facility. It is well connected to several Middle East European and Southeast countries by air. Even it has good number of hospitals and renowned specialized doctors in most of the disciplines. Along with these facilities, Kaerala's climatic condition and the communication skill of its natives helps Kerala to be the most sought after destination for medical treatment in the entire nation.

Patients from around the globe settled for Kerala as because the charges of major surgical procedures like cardiac surgery, dentistry, and cosmetic surgery is very low in compare to develop western countries. Even in Kerala, patients get the countries. The medical professionals of Kerala provides good pre and post-operative care to their patients so that they can have a positive experience. After the treatment at the hospitals, patients can stay at some famous health resorts of Cochin,Varakala, Kovallam and many more places of Kerala.

Some of the Medical tour packages are "dental tour package, Cochin", "eye care package, Cochin", "root canal package", "tooth whitening tour package" and etc.