Introduction Medical tourism has emerged as a new phenomenon in the current world; this has largely been linked to various factors which include the increased cost of health care, the long duration that is involved in getting particular health care services, the enhanced convenience in cross border travel and the advancement in technology which has made the treatment of some diseases possible which would not have otherwise been if not because of technology. Cost has been considered a fundamental drive in medical tourism. The main objective of medical tourism is to enhance accessibility by the population of better health care services. Medical tourism is therefore understood to mean a situation where an individual travels to another country mainly to undergo a medical treatment so as to minimize on costs that might result from lower currency or due to the reason of obtaining an expert in medical practice or technology at a foreign country. Medical tourism entails four main processes: research, planning, implementation and the outcome. The main countries where medical tourism is valued are United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. This is because these countries have higher GDP and hence substantial income for their population; this gives their population freedom and ability to attaining better health care. Globalization has led to the movement of people in search of health treatment and medical services have emerged as a major phenomenon in the modern world. This phenomenon of the globalization of health care has the implications that failure by hospitals to negotiate fair prices with the patients seeking medication attention and also their inability to negotiate good prices with insurance companies will lead to these patients traveling abroad to seek medical attention. Global health care includes all forms of medical tourism and is practiced in every country and it exists based on social class stratification. Several governments have had the tendency of promoting an economic model for the trading of health services. The main objective of medical tourism is to bring together both the public and the private sectors in the healthcare market and also to enhance the accessibility of all people to quality and affordable health care regardless of economic social class. Other reasons why people choose to seek medical treatment abroad are because of the desire to have alternative treatment procedure; increased desire for alternative medicine. The patients together with the medical insurers and employers have been motivated to cut on medical costs via international outsourcing. This has been prompted by the fact that the cost of medical attention, the cost of surgery, for example, has varying prices depending on the country and some countries may charge high costs which may be hard for some individuals to afford (Kumar & Yurk, n.d.). The major drivers that influence the directionality flow of health care Medical tourism can be inbound or outbound. The most preferred destination for inbound medical destination is Belgium, Brazil, Dubai, India and Germany. There are several factors that influence the flow of health care to this medical destination. In the case of Belgium patients are motivat