Belgrade – the gender reassignment capital?

Belgrade has become a destination for gender reassignment surgery, with a hundred international patients a year. Belgrade has become a destination for gender reassignment surgery. The Transgender...

Tax rebates and price transparency to encourage medical tourism to South Korea

New initiatives to promote South Korean medical tourism include tax rebates and price transparency. Foreigners who have cosmetic surgery or cosmetic treatment in South Korea...

Record spending on cosmetic surgery in USA

Americans spent more than 13.5 billion dollars on surgical and non-surgical cosmetic procedures in 2015. New data from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic...

Health and wellness tourism potential for Malaysia

Well known for medical tourism, Malaysia has not promoted health and wellness tourism as much. The sports ministry will continue to grow the "Fit...

Kerala aims to become healthcare hub by 2020

Leading hospitals in Kerala have formed a consortium to promote healthcare tourism. It believes it has the potential to increase the inflow of medical...

Package Travel Directive passed by EU Parliament

The European Parliament has adopted a new Package Travel Directive that will impact medical tourism agencies. The new laws are a further modernisation of...

Medical tourism website, Medigo expands into China and Asia

Medical tourism booking site has expended 10 million euros of investors’ money. Since launch, Medigo has helped 20,000 patients from 178 countries use a...

Czech Republic a favourite cosmetic destination for British, Germans and Russians

British, German and Russian clients dominate among foreigners seeking treatment at Czech healthcare facilities, mostly for cosmetic surgery. The number of foreign patients in...

Barriers for US medical tourism to Cuba

Loosening of restrictions on travel to Cuba caused misinformed comment that Americans could legally go to Cuba as medical tourists. When President Obama announced the...

Latest medical tourism figures from Colombia

The number of health tourists to Colombia grew in 2015 to over 10,000 an increase from 2014 figures. However figures may be mixed up...