India’s medical tourism market is projected to reach $16.2 billion by 2030
India’s medical tourism market is estimated at $8.7 billion in 2025, with government plans for five regional medical hubs, wider e-medical visa access and AYUSH-led wellness offerings positioned to support inbound patient growth.
What happened
India medical tourism sector · India’s medical tourism market is estimated at $8.7 billion in 2025 and projected to reach $16.2 billion by 2030. Budget 2026-27
Key facts
- India medical tourism market: $8.7 billion in 2025
- Projected India medical tourism market: $16.2 billion by 2030
- Global medical value travel market: $115.6 billion in 2022
- Projected global market: $286.1 billion by 2030
- India recorded 507,244 medical tourist arrivals in 2025
- Medical tourists were about 5.5% of 9.15 million foreign tourist arrivals
- Five Regional Medical Hubs proposed under Budget 2026-27
- 69,364 hospitals in India
- 1,299+ NABH-accredited hospitals
- e-Medical Visa facilities extended to 172 countries
Why this matters
Strategic buyers should evaluate partnerships or acquisitions in international patient coordinators, specialty-care networks, diagnostics and wellness providers that can scale across India’s emerging medical-tourism hubs.
What to watch
- Budget implementation details, hub locations, funding allocations and timelines for the five regional medical hubs.
- Changes in e-medical visa eligibility, processing times, permitted attendant visas and length-of-stay rules.
- Inbound patient arrivals, procedure volumes and average spending from Gulf, African, South Asian and Western markets.
- Hospital accreditation, international insurer tie-ups and transparent outcome-reporting adoption.
- Hotel occupancy, pharmacy sales, diagnostics traffic and wellness-retreat bookings near major treatment corridors.
- Regulatory actions affecting AYUSH claims, nutraceuticals, cross-border prescriptions and foreign-patient payments.
- Build medical-tourism catchment maps around proposed hubs, identifying pharmacies, diagnostics chains, hotels, airport retail, mobility suppliers and wellness brands with local exposure.
- Prioritize multilingual patient journeys across online booking, delivery, payments, customer service and post-treatment replenishment.
- Expand curated recovery and wellness assortments, including clinically credible supplements, mobility products, personal care and AYUSH-adjacent offerings while maintaining regulatory controls.
- Develop partnerships with hospitals, facilitators, insurers, hotels and travel platforms for referral, delivery and patient-discharge programs.
- Monitor pricing and inventory for high-demand imported medicines, devices and specialty nutrition products as inbound care volumes rise.