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Foreigners spend millions on health care in Czech Republic

More and more foreigners seek paid health care services, mostly cosmetic surgery, surgical treatment of obesity and assisted reproduction, in the Czech Republic. Local...

Romania seeks international investors for health tourism projects

Romania aims to develop health and wellness tourism. The problem is that the government is short of cash and there are not enough big...

Latvia promotes health tourism

The Latvian Health Tourism Cluster has launched a new promotion for 2014. In cooperation with Latvia’s resorts association the cluster has created a marketing...

TURKS AND CAICOS: Caribbean island takes next step into developing medical tourism.

Another Caribbean island has taken the next step into developing medical tourism. Early in 2014 the governor, Peter Beckingham, announced the British overseas territory's...

Chinese visitors may revive focus on medical tourism

Accelerating numbers of Chinese visitors to the islands of Hawaii represent a refreshed and unprecedented opportunity for health tourism. A few years ago, on contract...

South Korean medical tourism increasing

Official South Korean tourist organization KTO expects medical tourist numbers to reach 598,000 in 2015 and 998,000 in 2020.With such a surge in numbers,...

Inbound and outbound Australian medical tourism growing

New figures show that while Australia may have a smaller inbound than outbound medical tourism industry, inbound medical tourism is often driven by better...

State funding supports dental tourism to Hungary

Hungarian dentists who target foreign patients have so far received 12.4 million Euros in European Union and state funding available under a scheme that...

Book review: Health, Tourism and Hospitality: Spas, Wellness and Medical Travel

The second edition of "Health, Tourism and Hospitality: Spas, Wellness and Medical Travel" takes an in-depth and comprehensive look at the growing health, wellness...

Political crisis driving medical tourists away from Thailand

With many of the 50 countries that had already advised citizens to think twice before traveling to Thailand, upgrading advice to recommend that they...