IFHP survey: comparison of international healthcare costs

The International Federation of Health Plans, a group of 100 health funds and insurers across 30 countries, has released its '2010 Comparative Price Report'...

Developments in health tourism in India

The Indian Tourism Ministry has agreed to pay over $27,000 to 10 medical tourism service providers including representatives of hospitals, travel agents and tour...

Hungary promotes health and wellness tourism

According to Balázs Botos of the Ministry for National Economy the central message of the country for the forthcoming years will be "healing Hungary",...

German health and wellness tourism targets Middle East

The Middle East is one of the largest potential source markets of patients due to the high costs of healthcare and limited facilities in...

Graham Stanton shares his thoughts on the effect of the exchange rate

Graham Stanton, Manager of Corporate Sales at World First Foreign Exchange, shares his thoughts on how medical travel and medical tourism businesses can protect...

Germany: International healthcare accreditation moves forward

Temos has expanded its telemedicine portfolio with new tele-care, tele-clinic and tele-monitoring services. St. Luke's Medical Center Global City and St. Luke's Medical Center...

Top ten global spa trends for 2011

SpaFinder, the global spa and wellness resource, has identified global spa trends that will influence experiences for consumers and the industry in 2011 and...

Flying hospitals are not imaginary, and need your donations

The idea of flying hospitals may sound like a fantasy, but there are organizations promoting this concept to provide travelling care to countries that...

Can the patient ever be sure that the treatment will work?

A significant proportion of medical tourism and medical travel is driven by people seeking established and proven treatments in countries where the cost of...

Thailand medical tourism back on track

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has told tour operators that Thailand tourism and medical tourism are back to normal following political clashes that...