Goa is a beach state in India that celebrates Carnival Festival every year in the month of Febraury. This Three-day celebration, which is organized by the Department of Tourism and the Goa Tourism Development Corporation (GTDC), is famous not only in India but in the whole world because it showcases the magic of the Goa culture. The festival includes eating, drinking, merry-making, sounds producing, King Momo parade, music competition and several street plays.

The festival will officially start before Ash Wednesday of the month when people here put holy ash on their foreheads. This day indicates their 40-day penance before the resurrection of Christ on the Easter. Spectators from the rest of the world can participate in this carnival as they have their happy travels along the country of India.

Asian medical tourism industry will grow by 16% from 2010 to 2012. US President Obama’s healthcare reform will also give affirmative impacts to the medical tourism. The expansion of the insurance coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans will make more patients anticipated by the hospitals and medical institutions in Asian countries to avail of all medical treatments at a portion of the amount that they would have spent on the same service in the US.
In the connection with this good news, some Asian countries are now gaining fame as retirement havens, with the so-called “silver markets” composed of elderly citizens and baby boomers from the Western countries that leave their homelands for tropical destinations.