UK NHS to expand in the global market
What may surprise the medical tourism industry is that the British national health system, the NHS, has a new initiative that could eventually see...
Health and medical tourism update
Health tourism has been a strong selling point for Thailand, focusing not only on Bangkok but also other areas with a high concentration of...
Bulgaria sees a future for dental tourism across the Balkans
The number of people in Europe looking to receive dental health care outside their own country has grown significantly in the last two years...
Incentives could earn Turkey $8 billion in health tourism
Turkey could earn $8 billion from health tourism annually starting from 2015 provided the government introduces tax incentives for the sector, a report by...
Barbados serious about health and wellness tourism
The government of Barbados wants to encourage health and wellness tourism, but with the money coming from the private sector. The government role should...
Latvia: A cosmetic surgery tourism destination
Riga is the capital of Latvia, and hoping to attract tourisms that want cosmetic surgery. Cosmetic surgery can be 40 per cent cheaper in...
Bahrain health facilities receive Canadian certification
Two hospitals, Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) and the Psychiatric Hospital, and all twenty-two primary healthcare clinics owned by the Bahrain government have received an...
Hong Kong and Philippines: International accreditation of hospitals
A team of local healthcare workers in Hong Kong has been appointed by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) as qualified hospital accreditation...
Specialist health care centre to bring medical tourism to Iceland
A new health care medical tourism project by the Kadeco group and Iceland Healthcare is finally set to get underway in the second quarter...
Medical tourism in Lebanon is expanding
Lebanon is now seeking to become a centre for medical tourism. Making Lebanon the hospital of the East is the ambition of the Tourism...