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Sri Lanka plans to promote medical tourism
Sri Lanka plans to promote medical tourism to support a 20 billion dollars export target in year 2020. Sujatha Weerakoone of the Export Development...
Suicide Tourism In Switzerland Targets Patients Who Are Not Terminally Ill
A recent magazine feature suggests that the business of “assisted suicide” is now attracting people who are not terminally ill. In Switzerland, the numbers...
AXA launches cross- border insurance plans in Africa and Australasia
While medical tourism linked insurance has not yet happened, and shows few signs of being important to health insurance in the future, an increasing...
Apollo Hospitals looks to the Gulf
India’s Apollo Hospitals group is getting more patients from the UAE, Qatar and Oman. It sees huge potential in the GCC and the greater...
Slow progress in medical tourism plans in the Bahamas
IMTJ has published several reports on plans for medical tourism to the Bahamas, but these plans have yet to bear fruit. A local surgeon...
Spa tourism: Case study of Hévíz Hungary published
The Tourism Observatory for Health Wellness and Spa has issued a case study of the Hungarian spa town of Hévíz, “Hot springs, tourism and...
Is the Dominican Republic ready to be a health tourism destination?
The Dominican Republic aims to become an international health destination, particularly for people from Caribbean countries. Rescue RD group offers medical services in Puerto...
UK private hospitals to get ratings after independent inspection
For the first time, private hospitals in England will have independent inspections where hotel style ratings will be made public, so helping domestic and...
Rwanda aims to be a medical tourism destination
Most Rwandans are on a subsistence income, with poor healthcare, but local officials still claim that they will, in years to come, become a...
Puerto Rico launches medical tourism strategy
The Economic Development and Commerce department of Puerto Rico has presented its strategy for promoting itself as a medical tourism destination, especially among the...
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