New UK health insurance product based on medical tourism
Passport2Health, a new entrant to the private healthcare insurance market, is set to change the shape of UK health cover and challenge the high...
Bali and Singapore target medical tourists with special accommodation
Both Singapore and Bali attract high-paying medical tourists by offering much more than basic hospital accommodation. Singapore's Raffles Hospital has designed a new class...
South Korea targets Filipinos, Cambodians and Russians
South Korea gets many tourists from Cambodia, Russia and the Philippines, and is now seeking ways to attract many more medical tourists from these...
Cross-Balkan health and medical tourism network established
An EU-funded project, the Adriatic Health and Vitality Network (AHVN), seeks to establish a co-coordinated system of health and medical tourism that spans everything...
Medical tourism development in the Balkans: Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania
Romanian medical tourism saw 60,000 foreign arrivals in 2011, with dental, ophthalmic and cosmetic surgery services being the most sought after, says Emilian Imbrifrom...
Soter puts forward a different view on international medical accreditation and certification
Many potential medical tourists are told that the only safe hospitals are those with international accreditation; many Americans are told that they should only...
Central Europe promoting medical tourism
Medical tourism has been identified as a lucrative market for many Central European countries. Tourism promotion agency CzechTourism has launched Internet campaigns targeting Britain,...
African countries seeking to reduce outbound medical tourism
Several African countries want to reduce the flow of outbound medical tourism, mostly to India, and eventually become local medical tourism destinations. While several...
New national tourism strategy will help inbound medical tourism to the USA
The first ever national strategy to promote all forms of inbound tourism to the USA, and make it quicker and easier for people to...
Jeju Healthcare Town in Korea to attract medical tourists
Jeju Healthcare Town, part of Jeju Free International City Development Center (JDC), has broken ground and expects to be built by 2015 on the...
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