Growing inbound health tourism to Costa Rica

As Costa Rica opens its borders, it is eager to bring back the country’s strong tourism industry and welcome international travellers. Many hotels have established...

Iran to target more Afghan patients

Iran is considering making it easier for Afghan nationals who are willing to travel to the country for medical treatment. Approximately 62,000 Afghans visited...

Strict tests required for inbound patients to Thailand

Thailand is welcoming back some medical and wellness tourists, but they must quarantine for 14 days, and test and pass three screenings. Thailand has...

USA, China, Russia and Brazil excluded from EU’s safe country list

The EU has approved a list of 14 safe countries from where travellers can visit Europe in July. The EU list remains only a...

Concerns about Taiwan medical tourism plan

Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Centre (CECC) has relaxed entry rules for foreigners traveling to Taiwan for medical care and will open up to medical...

Website encourages safe EU tourism

The European Commission has launched Re-open EU, a web platform to support a safe relaunch of travelling and tourism across Europe.  It will provide...

Mauritius as a high-tech medical hub?

The Tourism Authority of Mauritius has released a new set of guidelines outlining sanitary measures for the resumption of activities in the tourism sector....

Four Seasons partners with Johns Hopkins for COVID-19 response

Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts has partnered with Johns Hopkins Medicine International, the global division of health care provider Johns Hopkins Medicine, to validate...

COVID-19: plan for seamless cross-border tracing across Europe

The EU has agreed on a set of technical specifications to ensure a safe exchange of information between national contact tracing apps, based on...

IATA publishes criteria for testing for travellers

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released criteria for the use of COVID-19 testing in the travel process. It suggests that if testing...