What will drive wellness tourism in the future?
A new study from Health Tourism Worldwide and the Wellness Tourism Association (WTA) has for the first time brought together industry experts and academics...
Refresh your sources of medical travellers
A new handbook suggests that successful marketing in the COVID-19 environment requires going back to basics, including reviewing the sources of customers.
The interruption in...
Growing inbound medical travel: Qatar to Switzerland
The Qatari Businessmen Association (QBA) has said it is in talks with Swiss companies and hospitals specialising in medical tourism and medical services, looking...
India targets Gulf medical tourists
India’s government, the Confederate of Indian Industries (CII), hospitals and others in healthcare have various plans to attract more foreign patients to India.
India’s NITI...
More medical tourists visiting Japan
Japan is attracting more medical tourists, mostly from China, but numbers are not known. Latest available edstimates from the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and...
COTRI Q3 2018 data shows slower rate of tourism growth
The China Outbound Tourism Research Institute (COTRI) has released its Chinese outbound tourism data for Q3 2018, revealing strong year-on-year growth compared with Q3...
Ireland extends cross-border healthcare scheme
The successful cross-border healthcare reimbursement scheme has been extended for another 12 months, from 30 June 2022, allowing people on waiting lists in Northern...
Mass tourism to Thailand is out but medical and health travel allowed
As part of the government’s very cautious approach to reopening borders, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) does not expect Thailand to welcome mass...
NW Malaysia State Attracts 9,000 Medical Travellers
9,078 people from various countries visited Perak under medical tourism between January and June 2019, said state tourism committee chairman Tan Kar Hing in...
Dubai develops health checks and tests programmes
Dubai is developing as a destination for preventative healthcare, with growing numbers of tourists travelling to the city from around the region for DNA...
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