China’s Boao Super Hospital targets wealthy medical travellers
Boao Super Hospital in South China’s Hainan Province has opened, but the region still has a long way to go before becoming an international...
Thailand positions itself in rehab treatment market
The rise in global addiction, particularly in Middle East countries, the US and Australia has created extremely long waiting lists at rehab centres. Thailand...
COTRI forecasts 400m outbound trips by 2030
The Chinese Tourism Outbound Research Institute (COTRI) forecasts that by 2030 the total number of Chinese outbound trips will reach 400 million, with two...
Australian company suffers in UK private hospital sector
Australia’s biggest healthcare company, which entered the UK market with the acquisition and subsequent rebranding of Capio in 2007, said NHS demand management strategies...
Doctors as ambassadors for Greece
Medical tourism organisation Elitour wants to connect Greek doctors working at home and abroad and encourage them to promote Greece as medical, health and...
GDPR may apply to non-EU medical tourism companies
Many companies in medical tourism assume they are immune from the new EU data protection rules on EU customers, as they are outside the...
Language barrier and poor follow-up care highlighted
Speaking at the Hospital Innovation and Patient Experience Conference 2018 (HiPex 2018), Noh Ji-myeong, head of the Pusan National University Hospital’s International Health Center...
Iran potential destination for Pakistan medical travellers
According to UrudoPoint.com, Iran had nearly 30,000 foreign patients in 2012, and this has gone up to almost 200,000 in 2015. The article suggests...
Best practice in cross border IVF… Who cares?
Infertility treatment is amongst the fastest growing niches in medical travel. However, if there are well researched good practices out there on the management of...
Useful resource for medical travel companions
Based on interviews with Canadian medical travel companions, Valorie Crooks, Professor at Simon Fraser University and her team have published an information sheet to...
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