International tourism – strongest half-year results since 2010

Destinations worldwide welcomed 598 million international tourists in the first six months of 2017. Destinations worldwide welcomed 598 million international tourists in the first six...

Russia – medical tourism flows

The number of medical tourists from Southeast Asia seeking medical care in Russia more than doubled compared to 2016. According to the Russian Medical Tourism...

EU-China Tourism Year 2018

EU-China Tourism Year 2018 is a new opportunity for European destinations to encourage tourism in less well-known destinations and for smaller businesses to take...

Smart City, Malta hospital delayed

A private hospital to attract medical tourists to Smart City in Malta may never be built. A new 100 million euro private hospital was to...

Air Alliance wins the Award “Air Ambulance Provider of the Year 2017″

Air Alliance Medflight has been awarded the "Air Ambulance Provider of the Year“ at the ITIJ Industry Awards. The honour of being named "Air Ambulance...

A new index provides some insights into the UK as a source for outbound...

The recently published Euro Health Consumer Index provides some interesting insights into the state of the UK health services and some encouragement for those...

Armenian medical travel agency start-up

The Armenian start-up GetTreated is a new medical travel agency created by Raffi Elliott. The Armenian start-up GetTreated is a new medical travel agency created...

Performance measures for more UK hospitals to be published

PHIN is publishing performance measures for an additional 26 hospitals offering private healthcare services. The measures are consistent with the first set of measures...

RCS cosmetic surgery certification

A Manchester surgeon is the first to be endorsed by the Royal College of Surgeons to perform cosmetic surgery. A surgeon from Manchester has become...

What is the true state of the medical tourism industry?

IMTJ reflects on the latest trends in medical travel, and provides a roundup of some of the mostly widely read articles of the year...