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UAE healthcare to attract foreign ownership
The UAE Cabinet has announced the relaxation of foreign ownership restrictions for 122 business activities, including for hospitals, dental and medical clinics. This should...
Mayo Clinic / Oxford University partnership launches in London
Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust has teamed up with Oxford University and major US healthcare provider Mayo Clinic to launch a private diagnostics clinic...
Confidence Index assesses tourism in Thailand
The latest Thailand Tourism Confidence Index report projects that total arrivals will reach 40.06 million international tourists by the end of 2019, up 4.65% from 2018. ...
Uzbekistan is opening up to tourists
Uzbekistan’s new tourism law defines the direction of state tourism and aims to encourage more visitors. While there is currently little inbound medical or...
Algarve has the potential to grow health tourism
Ahead of the 2019 Algarve Tourism Conference, Andrew Coutts, CEO of the ILM Tourism & Hospitality Real Estate Group Portugal, has urged the region...
Singapore’s Verita announces wellness venture in Thailand
Verita Healthcare Group has entered into a joint venture with Minor Group’s Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas to collaborate on a global network of...
Is the China/USA trade war cutting medical tourism to the USA?
Inbound medical tourism to the USA by affluent Chinese patients doesn’t seem be affected by the current US-Sino trade war…so far. The long-term prospects...
Oversupply in Abu Dhabi market impacts medical travel sector
Abu Dhabi is attempting to rival Dubai in the UAE as a medical tourism destination, but it is a slow moving picture, set against...
Compulsory health insurance from 2020 will cut medical travel
Kazakhstan is to launch compulsory insurance in 2020, which may significantly reduce outbound medical tourism. It is likely that increased competitiveness will prepare the country’s...
Foreign patients pay up to double for treatment Thailand
Health officials have instructed administrators at Thailand's state hospitals to implement a new rate structure that significantly raises prices for non-citizens. This will affect,...
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