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Inbound and outbound Australian medical tourism growing

New figures show that while Australia may have a smaller inbound than outbound medical tourism industry, inbound medical tourism is often driven by better...

State funding supports dental tourism to Hungary

Hungarian dentists who target foreign patients have so far received 12.4 million Euros in European Union and state funding available under a scheme that...

Book review: Health, Tourism and Hospitality: Spas, Wellness and Medical Travel

The second edition of "Health, Tourism and Hospitality: Spas, Wellness and Medical Travel" takes an in-depth and comprehensive look at the growing health, wellness...

Chinese visitors may revive focus on medical tourism

Accelerating numbers of Chinese visitors to the islands of Hawaii represent a refreshed and unprecedented opportunity for health tourism. A few years ago, on contract...

South Korean medical tourism increasing

Official South Korean tourist organization KTO expects medical tourist numbers to reach 598,000 in 2015 and 998,000 in 2020.With such a surge in numbers,...

Looking at the growth of the dental tourism market

Ian Youngman looks at the growth in the dental tourism market, the increase in both demand and supply and how providers will need to...

The risks of medical tourism are hard to find

The final report of a two year UK study into medical tourism (“Implications for the NHS of inward and outward medical tourism”) was published...

Cyprus government urged to promote health tourism

Polys Georgiades of the Medical Services Promotion Agency urges the Cyprus government to help and finance medical tourism, as it will bring economic benefits...

Political crisis driving medical tourists away from Thailand

With many of the 50 countries that had already advised citizens to think twice before traveling to Thailand, upgrading advice to recommend that they...

Fraser Institute, Canada, reports decline in number of medical tourists

Although waiting times and other problems of the Canadian health system became worse in 2013, the number of outbound medical tourists has probably seen...