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Is wellness worth it?

Adding wellness facilities adds more revenue, but comes with financial risks. Quantifying how big a difference wellness makes is difficult, but RLA Global has...

Targeting medical travellers from Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a key source market of medical travellers.  Some countries largely depend on it for international patients and are busy rebuilding their marketing...

Jordan’s medical travel numbers are ‘up by 25%’

Jordan’s medical tourism patient numbers are up by 25% for the first 8 months of 2022 reports the Private Hospitals Association (PHA). Applying this...

India’s private hospitals report international patient rise

After two years of pandemic medical tourism to India is again on the rise, according to both Fortis Hospitals and Apollo Hospitals. Medical tourists are...

Iceland’s top medical tourist attraction to list on Nasdaq Iceland

Iceland’s top medical tourist attraction Blue Lagoon has made a decision to begin preparing for the registration of the company on the Nasdaq Iceland Main...

Counting the cost of medical tourism from Nigeria

The Federal Government of Nigeria has recently said that Nigerians spend between US$1.2 and US$1.6 billion on medical tourism yearly on outbound medical tourism....

South Korea: malpractice review poses risks for medical travel sector

Health minister Cho Kyoo-hong is set to review measures to relieve the burden of medical professionals in South Korea, including possibly enacting a special...

The top five burning issues in medical tourism

At the IMTJ Medical Travel Summit in London, April 15th-16th, we’re aiming to focus on some of the key issues that face the developing...

Malaysia “boob job” advertisement banned in UK

If you are in the medical tourism business, one pitfall that you must avoid is breaking the advertising and promotion rules in your target...

Correction… The medical tourism industry is nine times smaller than we thought!

Is the medical tourism market really worth $439 billion dollars? Keith Pollard revisits the claims from the Medical Tourism Association (MTA) and sets the...