Costa Rica promoting itself as a medical tourism destination

The capital city of San Jose is the destination of choice for medical tourists to Costa Rica, but other destinations are developing too. Clínica...

Tax exemption for private hospitals to boost medical tourism in Malaysia

The Malaysian government will offer tax exemptions to all private hospitals that are willing to transform their institutions into medical tourism destinations. Health Minister...

QHA Trent provides independent accreditation for hospital across the world

QHA Trent provides independent, accreditation for hospitals and clinics throughout the world. This British-based healthcare company has a worldwide remit and works with hospitals...

Iceland’s geothermal water is white gold in health tourism

"Geothermal water is Iceland's white gold," said health tourism consultant Csilla Mezösi at the annual meeting of the Iceland Association for Health Tourism. Iceland's...

Report proposes incentives for Indian hospitals to promote health and wellness tourism

The Indian government should provide tax incentives to hospitals to promote India as a health and wellness tourism destination, says a report by Federation...

What have we learned from the gold rush of medical tourism?

Last year, I blogged about “Medical tourism...lessons from the California gold rush”. It’s taken me a while to write the postscript to this, but...

Controversy over Delhi superbug returns to haunt medical tourism in India

Controversy over a superbug has returned to haunt medical tourism in India following the latest claims made by British medical journal, The Lancet. A...

Caribbean islands investigating potential of medical tourism

Jamaica tourism minister Edmund Bartlett says efforts are underway to use medical tourism to diversify Jamaica’s tourism product, and bring in much needed foreign...

New London agency could promote medical tourism

London & Partners, a new single agency with a remit to attract tourism, inward investment and international students to the UK capital has been...

The medical tourism world is shrinking, but is this good news?

Ian Youngman from IMTJ explains how the world of medical tourism is shrinking and how this may actually be good news for the industry....