Transforming Global Healthcare with AI-Driven Medical Tourism to Advance SDG 3 offers a groundbreaking exploration of how artificial intelligence is reshaping medical travel, global healthcare delivery, and the pursuit of universal well-being. As nations strive to achieve SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being, this volume presents an integrated, multidisciplinary perspective on how AI-enabled medical tourism can create more accessible, efficient, and equitable healthcare systems worldwide. Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, the book examines AI's transformative role across clinical diagnostics, predictive analytics, hospital operations, digital financing, patient experience management, and sustainability-driven health mobility. It highlights how smart hospitals, AI-based decision support systems, FinTech-healthcare convergence, and digital transparency tools are redefining international patient flows, reducing treatment costs, and enhancing trust in cross-border healthcare ecosystems. Beyond clinical and financial efficiency, the volume explores AI's broader socio-economic impact-rural upliftment through tourism spillovers, environmental implications of medical travel, and community development shaped by digital transformation. Case studies from India, global tourism hubs, and emerging health destinations provide real-world insights into how AI can bridge health disparities and strengthen global healthcare access. Designed for academics, policymakers, healthcare leaders, technologists, and tourism innovators, this book offers a forward-looking framework for building sustainable, secure, and patient-centred AI-driven medical tourism systems. It serves as an essential resource for understanding how AI can accelerate progress toward SDG 3 while transforming the global healthcare landscape for the decades ahead.
