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COVID-19: Global collaboration to develop coronavirus vaccine
CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and global pharma giant GSK have a new collaboration aimed at helping the global effort to develop...
COVID-19: medical tourism could be affected until 2021
Many major medical tourism source and destination countries are affected by COVID-19. Ian Youngman looks at what this means for medical travel and is...
Findings from Health at a Glance 2019
The OECD Health at a Glance 2019 highlights some worrying patterns in health outcomes and unhealthy lifestyles, and that more attention should be placed...
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...
Barbados is the latest Caribbean country to launch an online investment guide
The investment guide site provides foreign investors with up-to-date information on opportunities and conditions for doing business in Barbados. Of the nine sectors identified...
Chemical-free holidays and more
UK tour operator, Health and Fitness Travel, has published its forecast on the next big trends in wellness travel for 2020.
Their suggestions include:
Chemical-free holidays
With...
Future trends in medical tourism in the GCC
For many years the GCC countries have been a rich source of income for leading hospitals around the world. Specialist centres in the UK,...
Unclear international standards hold back medical tourism
An array of measurement approaches, standards and regulations are holding back development in the global medical travel sector. Laing Buisson’s Maria D. Georga led...
Health tourism in Iran: from past to present
Why is Iran still relatively unknown as a health tourism destination? Niloufar A’alami, an MBA student in Health Tourism and employee of AriaMedTour, a large medical...
Global health and tourism organisations call for coordination
As the outbreak of COVID-19 continues to develop and major travel events including this year’s ITB Berlin are cancelled, the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
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