Medical and wellness travel: Specialist courses for travel agents in the USA
A travel agent specialist course on medical and wellness travel is under development by The Travel Institute and Well-Being Travel. Well-Being Travel, an agent...
International Medical Tourism Chamber of Commerce – A medical tourism trade body
Christina deMoraes founded the International Medical Tourism Chamber of Commerce (IMTCC) in 2012. It is based in California in the USA. It is still...
A Swedish view of medical tourism and cross-border care
The Health Consumer Powerhouse (HCP) monitors and compares healthcare systems among 35 countries, including all EU member states as well as Canada. Using more...
Rwanda aims to become a regional medical tourism hub
Rwanda wants to become a medical tourism destination to boost foreign earnings. But it has few world-class medical facilities, and those are provided by...
Suing an Indian hospital for medical negligence could take 20 years
Americans going overseas for medical treatment will find it long and difficult, if not impossible, to sue for medical negligence either in the US...
Iran reports earnings of $1.5bn from health tourism in 2012
Manouchehr Jahanian of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization has stated that Iran hosted 200,000 health tourists in 2012, earning $1.5 billion, a...
South Korea medical tourism hampered by regulation
The number of foreign tourists visiting South Korea for medical treatment is increasing but held back by government regulations on local hospitals, claims the...
Hungarian Tourism promotes medical tourism
Hungarian Tourism plc is now actively promoting medical tourism globally, but targeted mostly at Western Europe. Hungary is one of the flagship countries of...
Taiwan targets medical tourism
Taiwan is doing rather well at attracting health and medical tourists, with a constant supply of new ideas. In the eastern county of Hualien,...
Can Kenya become a medical tourism destination?
Kenya and especially its capital, Nairobi, is now considered the hub for business and development in Eastern Africa. The country expects one and a...
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