COVID-19: medical tourism could be affected until 2021
Many major medical tourism source and destination countries are affected by COVID-19. Ian Youngman looks at what this means for medical travel and is...
Seven actions for businesses of all kinds
Management consultants McKinsey & Company have published their insight into the economic implications for business of COVID-19. They recommend businesses should consider three different scenarios...
Future trends in medical tourism in the GCC
For many years the GCC countries have been a rich source of income for leading hospitals around the world. Specialist centres in the UK,...
Unclear international standards hold back medical tourism
An array of measurement approaches, standards and regulations are holding back development in the global medical travel sector. Laing Buisson’s Maria D. Georga led...
Health tourism in Iran: from past to present
Why is Iran still relatively unknown as a health tourism destination? Niloufar A’alami, an MBA student in Health Tourism and employee of AriaMedTour, a large medical...
How do US medical travellers choose a destination?
An academic study has analysed the trade-offs that US outbound travellers make when choosing an overseas health and wellness destination. It found that cost...
Gulf medical tourism: Is the golden egg cracking?
In the first of a two-part feature, Ian Youngman argues that the outbound Gulf medical tourism cycle has peaked, and numbers will decline. Past...
Why patients travel to Turkey for hair surgery
The hair transplant industry is one that has continued to grow worldwide, and hubs have formed for this treatment in different parts of the...
What could harm the international patient experience?
Creating a positive experience is important for all patients, but medical travellers are a particularly vulnerable group due to the added challenges they face...
Brexit has happened. Will it impact UK medical travel?
The UK has left the European Union, so what does this mean for the future of cross-border healthcare, outbound from and inbound medical tourism...
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