Taiwan targets medical tourism
Taiwan is doing rather well at attracting health and medical tourists, with a constant supply of new ideas. In the eastern county of Hualien,...
Hungarian Tourism promotes medical tourism
Hungarian Tourism plc is now actively promoting medical tourism globally, but targeted mostly at Western Europe. Hungary is one of the flagship countries of...
Is it time to bring medics into medical tourism?
Dr. Kevin Huffman of Medical Travel Associates and the American Board of Bariatric Medicine, believes it’s time to get the medics more involved in...
South Korea medical tourism hampered by regulation
The number of foreign tourists visiting South Korea for medical treatment is increasing but held back by government regulations on local hospitals, claims the...
Can Kenya become a medical tourism destination?
Kenya and especially its capital, Nairobi, is now considered the hub for business and development in Eastern Africa. The country expects one and a...
Two new bodies are trying to bring together medical travel
Two new industry bodies have been launched to bring together the disparate bodies representing medical travel both nationally and internationally.
The Global Healthcare Travel Council...
Survey highlights the fragmented nature of medical tourism
The Medical Tourism Climate Survey 2013, carried out for the International Medical Travel Journal highlights widespread optimism about the future of medical tourism despite...
Singapore medical tourism is recovering
Singapore is again seeing more medical tourists. Figures for 2011 show an increase in medical tourists, while reports from hospitals suggest 2012 and 2013...
New visa exemptions to attract more medical tourists to Thailand
Thailand has become a well-known medical tourism destination, and to remain competitive has relaxed its immigration law to promote medical tourism. The new regulations...
TK insurance customers in Germany seek quality in treatments abroad
The Wineg-Institute of the Techniker health insurance (TK) has published the fourth annual survey of the TK members about their planned treatments abroad. Most...
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