VAT on cosmetic surgery: New tax may encourage outbound medical tourism
The cost of facelifts, tummy tucks, liposuction and breast enlargements in the UK is set to rise by 20% after new government guidelines on...
Bulgaria promotes health and wellness tourism
Bulgaria has a new tourism strategy for the next decade, which includes the launch of an enhanced advertising campaign called 'Bulgaria: Magic Lives Here'....
Government allows private for-profit hospitals in Korea
The South Korean government plans to ease rules in the nation's free economic zones (FEZs) to allow foreign medical institutes to more easily set...
Swiss healthcare – the gold standard?
Switzerland is often cited by the medical tourism industry as having excellent quality healthcare to match other top performers such as Germany. Switzerland is...
Government sponsored medical tourism under pressure in Dubai, Nigeria and Turks and Caicos
The government of the Turks and Caicos Islands has followed Dubai and Nigeria with a public declaration of the need to drastically cut government...
New medical tourism destination planned for South Africa
A large new health and wellness centre to be developed in South Africa will be the first of its kind in the world, says...
What drives medical tourism: New report from the Economist Intelligence Unit
A new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit 'Travelling for health: the potential for medical tourism', has some surprising results when it looks at...
American run hospital in Panama achieves JCI certification
In Panama City, a hospital run by Johns Hopkins Medicine has become the first in the country to receive JCI international accreditation. Hospital Punta...
Serious ethical concerns on Chinese organ transplant tourism
Important ethical questions are raised by the growth of "transplant tourism". The long waiting lists for body parts in many developed countries, and the...
Fortis forecasts 10% revenue generation from medical tourism in three years
Indian hospital group, Fortis Healthcare, has been an early proponent of medical tourism. Now it expects to get 10% of its Indian revenue from...
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