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How to tap into the Chinese medical travel market
Chinese outbound travel numbers are exceeding all predictions. Ian Youngman, healthcare and insurance industry specialist, looks at outbound tourism flows, and the different approach...
Choose medical tourism reality, not the promotional hype
If you want a ‘head in the clouds’ view of the medical tourism sector, then you’ll believe some people’s claims that the sector is...
Why don’t US health insurance plans include medical travel?
Why do so few US health insurance companies offer international medical travel benefits? In the first of two articles, Irving Stackpole, President, Stackpole & Associates...
BAAPS call for UK surgeons to halt butt lift surgery
The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) has advised British cosmetic surgeons to stop performing Brazilian butt lift surgery until more data can...
South-North Korea co-operation potential
The South Korean capital city sees medical tourism potential in co-operation between South and North Korea, plus broadens its medical tourist source target markets.
According...
China’s WeDoctor in Asia partnership
WeDoctor and Singapore-based Fullerton Healthcare form a strategic partnership, to both target China’s medical tourists going abroad, and expand clinics in China.
Chinese online healthcare...
Cancún targets more inbound US medical tourists
According to the Yucatán Times, progress with the ‘Health City’ project will boost medical tourism in Cancún. The ultimate aim is to create the...
Funds to expand Africa’s online doctor service
DabaDoc, the Morocco-based healthtech disrupter, has raised money from AXA Insurance Morocco to move into new countries.
DabaDoc, the Morocco-based healthtech disrupter, has raised an...
Singapore ends foreign patient referrals to local hospitals
The Singapore Ministry of Health has said it is putting an end to foreign patient referral contracts and has instructed all public hospitals to...
7m tourists to Iran by year end
According to Ali-Asghar Mounesan, head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organisation (CHHTO), international arrivals in the country will reach 7m by the...
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