UK waiting lists drive interest private healthcare
A new NHS plan to reduce waiting lists in England will not reduce them until at least 2024, admits the UK government. This will...
Malaysia: private hospitals look to medical travel revival
The planned full reopening of the country’s border from 1 March will allow medical tourists to return to Malaysia for their medical care which...
Europe: a transition pathway for tourism
Medical tourism needs to take on board the changing direction of European tourism. A new European Commission report sets out a transition pathway for...
China launches digital TCM innovation centre
Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine has launched a digital TCM innovation centre, to benefit patients across the world with TCM resources.
The project consists...
Plan to increase travel flow to China
China seeks to play a greater role in global tourism over the next five years, by moving the focus away from Europe. Within that...
IMTJ Editor in Chief speaks at Medical Korea 2022
Keith Pollard will be speaking about Medical tourism: past, present and future at Medical Korea 2022, taking place in person and online from 10...
Promoting inbound UK medical travel: a missed opportunity
The Mayor of London has unveiled plans to invest £10 million in new domestic and international campaigns to attract more tourists to the capital....
China medical tourism zone revenues exceed US$200m
Hainan Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone has stated that its revenues increased 83.7% to 1.53 billion yuan (from US$130 million to US$240...
Indonesia foreign investor plans
Attempts in Indonesia to improve local healthcare, reduce outbound medical tourism and potentially offer inbound medical tourism by attracting overseas healthcare groups have been...
Ukraine: the impact of war
According to the Ukrainian Association of Medical Tourism (UAMT), 2018 and 2019 both saw 65,000 medical tourists visit Ukraine, mostly from Russia and Western...
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