Cooperation: the key to developing a system of global medical tourism to overcome barriers
There are many issues within the medical tourism industry, that can be overcome with greater communication from all parties. Senior academics from Bowling Green...
Five myths about medical tourism clusters
5 common misconceptions surrounding medical tourism clusters are addressed.
The medical tourism landscape is littered with clusters that have failed to launch or are underperforming.
There...
Can Cross Border Healthcare help develop medical tourism in Europe
Could Europe lead the world in medical travel? Could the EU Directive on Cross Border Healthcare provide the stimulus for the development of a...
Widening access to EU stem cell treatment
The European Union has new proposals for legislation on blood, tissues, and cells to protect stem cell patients. The ambition is to create more...
The impact of healthcare reform on the USA’s medical tourism industry
Ian Youngman considers the impact of US healthcare reform on medical tourism and how economic and political change in Europe will affect the medical...
Ditch brochures and ‘old’ tech if you want patients from China
Unless you can show that your destination is safe, and can use the latest technology that the Chinese use, you will not attract as...
Is stem cell treatment legal in India?
Despite the New Drugs and Clinical Rules 2019, in force in India, some clinics in the country still provide unproven and unregulated stem cell...
Keith Pollard explains why we should abandon medical tourism
Keith Pollard from Treatment Abroad explains why the industry should abandon “medical tourism”. Is he serious? Yes. He even suggests that we should start...
Health tourism is often resented by countries, but can it have positive effects?
Dr Constantine Constantinides suggest how health tourism development can act as a powerful agent of change and force for the general good, highlights the...
Why there’s optimism about travel this year
The Beijing-based World Tourism Cities Federation (WTCF) is offering five reasons to be optimistic about 2021. Ian Youngman examines this Asian-focused view of tourism...
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