How can Iran attract more Iraqi medical travellers?
Iraq is one of the most important source markets of health and medical tourists to Iran. Saeed Hashemzadeh, manager of the health tourism office...
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...
COVID-19: medical tourism could be affected until 2021
Many major medical tourism source and destination countries are affected by COVID-19. Ian Youngman looks at what this means for medical travel and is...
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...
An industry on shaky ground?
A new report on the hidden costs of tourism warns the industry is on a shaky foundation in many destinations and problems of over-tourism...
Affluent Chinese patients go to Japan
Two of the most significant contributing factors to Japan’s success as a medical tourism destination is the liberalisation of its healthcare market, and the...
The issues in measuring medical tourism numbers
Ian Youngman, author of Medical Tourism Facts and Figures 2014, highlights the issue of measuring medical tourism numbers and the problem of differentiating between...
Dr Ada Kostrz-Kostecka talks about the new Polish medical tourism initiative
Within Poland’s economic strategy for 2012-2015, medical tourism has been selected as one of fifteen priority areas of Polish industry to receive funding from...
Can medical tourism on its own be sustainable?
In his Second Opinion column, Dr Constantine Constantinides from healthCare cybernetics suggests that destinations need to broaden their vision of health tourism if they...
Should I get certified for medical tourism?
In an article recently published in Healthcare Markets international, SR Dinesh, Vice President and Business Head of Healthcare at Frost & Sullivan, Asia Pacific,...
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