Central and Eastern Europe – medical tourism attractiveness
Healthcare in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is improving, with a wave of cross-border mergers and acquisitions and increasing spending. Could this region become...
EU cross-border healthcare still requires improvement
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has published a special report on EU cross-border healthcare. The verdict: "significant ambitions but improved management required". Ian Youngman...
nteractive maps can help medical travel destinations
A GIS mapping project has been undertaken in the USA by a team from Colorado State University. It assesses the potential of using interactive mapping...
Checklist for medical travel planning
More and more, patients are leaving home for care, whether within their own country (domestic medical travel) or outside of it. Arlen Meyers, President...
Targeting the complex care patient: Korea’s rising global status
For decades, in the eyes of the medical travel world, Korea was primarily known as an international hub for cosmetic and plastic surgery. Yet...
Potential in understanding diasporic medical travel behaviour
New research has been published in Tourism Management on the motivations for diasporic medical travel. Author Aneta Mathijsen explains that diasporic medical travel may...
Could visa rules deter medical tourists?
Understanding the variety of visa-free, e-visa and visa-on-arrival rules by nation is something that medical tourism businesses and countries must begin to grasp and...
An industry on shaky ground?
A new report on the hidden costs of tourism warns the industry is on a shaky foundation in many destinations and problems of over-tourism...
Get on board China’s Belt & Road initiative
The predicted economic power of emerging markets and the massive investment in China’s Belt & Road Initiative is changing global medical tourism. Ian Youngman...
UK non-surgical cosmetic market: a crisis waiting to happen?
The UK non-surgical cosmetic procedure market is growing, as social media and celebrity culture drive demand for ‘quick and easy’ enhancement. But why is...
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