Cuba’s new medical tourism partnerships
The state organisation promoting medical tourism to Cuba, Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos S.A. (CSMC), has signed contracts with the Cubanacan hotel group and...
UAE encourages healthcare investment
The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH) is promoting medical tourism and the quality of healthcare services with the latest therapeutic disciplines, to...
European travel authorisation system starts soon
European authorities have announced the implementation of the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS), a platform where most non-European visitors will have to...
Japan to open in June
Japan, closed since early 2020, plans to ease travel restrictions from June but the chances of much inbound or outbound medical tourism in Japan,...
Thailand entry changes could impact medical travel
Thailand is finally reopening for tourism after two years of consecutive border closures and complex entry restrictions. Even though it is slowly allowing more...
Dubai: 630,000 medical travellers in 2021?
The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) claims that Dubai received 630,000 international medical travellers in 2021, mostly from Asia, but this data should be treated...
Latvia’s changing inbound medical travel
In 2019, more than 25,000 people from different countries used medical services in Latvia, according to the Latvian Health Tourism Cluster. Most were from...
India: a new portal for medical travel?
The Indian federal government has said it wants a new portal to promote India as a preferred medical travel destination. The National Health Authority...
Reducing Kuwait’s outbound medical travel
Kuwait has established a public-private-partnership healthcare system to service expatriates’ health needs. The offer from Health Assurance Hospitals Company (DHAMAN) means two million expats...
Cook Islands insurance covers treatment in New Zealand
Organisations based in the Cook Islands are now able to access a new premier medical insurance plan through global insurance broker WTW. The plan...