South Korea: new urban wellbeing resort
Therme Group has announced plans for a US$200m urban wellbeing resort in South Korea within the Incheon Free Economic Zone, with a capacity to...
Inbound travel to China will return
The volume of visitors entering China from other countries will experience a recovery in 2023 in view of the removal of restrictions and quarantines,...
Why Bangladeshis travel overseas
The healthcare system in Bangladesh has undergone significant developments in recent years, and yet thousands of Bangladeshi patients still travel abroad in search of...
Six medical tourists develop Q fever after stem cell therapy in Germany
Six medical tourists catch Q fever after travelling to Germany for a controversial treatment involving injections with sheep cells.
Five Americans and one Canadian came...
How to improve Indian medical tourism
The latest official figures on travel and medical tourism to India have put paid to the claim that India has millions of medical tourists,...
27% occupancy level in Health City Cayman Islands
This 2,000-bed hospital project in Grand Cayman was meant to be the leading example for medical tourism, anticipating 17,000 American medical tourists a year...
French government to stimulate inbound medical tourism
Health and foreign ministries working to promote French healthcare abroad and cut red tape for foreigners. France wants to open its hospitals to private medical...
Kazakhstan becomes a medical tourism destination
While Kazakhs still travel abroad for medical care to India, Malaysia, South Korea, Israel and others, the country is attracting more medical tourists.
While Kazakhs...
Cayman government raises questions after failed medical tourism venture
Two years on, Health City Cayman Islands fails to meet objectives and is raising government concerns on unfair competition. The initial project was designed...
Tanzania President John Magufuli says treatment abroad has dropped sharply
Speaking to doctors in Dar es Salaam, and quoted in The Citizen, President Magufuli has claimed that investment in healthcare facilities in Tanzania has...
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