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Thailand promotes health and wellness tourism

Best known for medical tourism, Thailand is now promoting all types of health and wellness tourism. Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has a new...

Update on international healthcare accreditation

Several accreditors have been very active recently, proving that there is more to international accreditation than JCI. DNV Healthcare and the Accreditation Commission for...

The future plans for Cyprus as a medical tourism centre

Cyprus was one of the first entrants into the European medical tourism sector, and, at an early stage, the country established a national initiative...

What is it all about?

The EU Directive on Cross Border Healthcare has been described as “…the most significant and wide-ranging European health legislation in a generation.” The deadline...

Does Nicaragua have medical tourism potential?

Nicaragua seeks to position itself as a medical tourism destination, states a report commissioned by a local government agency. Nicaraguan based Calvet & Associates...

Nigerians still going abroad for affordable care

5,000 Nigerians go to another country for treatment each month, claims Dr. Adeyeye Arigbabuwa of the Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of...

UK promoting domestic and inbound medical tourism

The concept of domestic (within a country) medical tourism is not unique. Leading UK health insurer Bupa is expanding the non-insured self pay surgery,...

Participate in IMJT’s price transparency survey

As the medical tourism market develops, there’s an increasing need to provide reliable, well-researched data on aspects of the international patient market. Price plays an...

Stem cell therapies show medical tourism’s darker side.

At Treatment Abroad, we recently received correspondence regarding a UK family’s experience of stem cell tourism. The patient is a four year old boy...

Iran, a destination for Islamic medical tourists

Thanks to its geographical position, the conditions in neighbouring countries, economically reasonable prices and advanced medical facilities, Iran is gradually becoming a destination for...