Oman private hospitals must accept COVID-19 patients

Private hospitals in Oman are obliged to receive and treat private COVID-19 patients – Omani and expatriate – regardless of their ability to pay...

A serious impact on healthcare-related business

Over the past month, IMTJ has been taking the temperature of the medical travel sector and assessing the impact of COVID-19 on the businesses...

US-Mexico travel ban extended again

Dental tourists and medical tourists looking to make a trip to Mexico will have to wait unless they travel by car and can persuade...

More Irish approved for treatment abroad

The number of Irish patients approved to have their operations performed abroad and reimbursed by the Health Service Executive (HSE) is increasing significantly. When the...

Medical travellers welcome back to Austria

Most medical tourists into Austria are from Germany, who are now allowed in without quarantine or testing. Another source of medical travellers, Romania, will...

Report predicts medical and health tourism growth

A new report from Colliers International, “Reviving Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality” suggests that medical and health tourism will support the tourism recovery in selected...

Will the ART Bill 2020 shrink India’s fertility services market?

India’s much awaited Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Regulation Bill 2020, and its Surrogacy Bill 2020, will dent the country’s fertility services market. This might...

GHA launches COVID guidelines for medical tourism

The Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Programme for Medical Travel Services has launched COVID-19 Guidelines for Medical Travel Programmes to assist organisations in the medical...

Sri Lanka looks to promote health tourism

The Sri Lanka Export Development Board in association with the Sri Lanka Wellness Tourism Association has been exploring the potential of wellness tourism with...

Health tourism in Dubai has new safety measures

Dubai is opening to international health tourism, with new safety measures. The Department of Tourism is expecting tourism to come back quickly, and is...