Reviving medical travel to Thailand
Leading Thailand hospital group Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS), has plans to revive inbound medical tourism and seek new markets.
Bangkok Hospital Siriroj in Phuket,...
Philippines targets medical travellers with packages
Medical and wellness tour packages targeted at foreign medical and health tourists have been rolled out in metropolitan Manila and nearby provinces, as part...
Medical travel optimism for India
Indian medical tourism agency CureIndia, based in New Delhi, has said it is confident of a 2022 recovery, particularly for inbound dental and medical...
Encouraging domestic medical travel to Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Health Code is a new system which will enable local medical tourism from China.
Hong Kong Health Code has opened for registration...
Rising threat of fake vaccine passports
The number of fake COVID-19 vaccination passports is growing in Europe, as thousands of vaccine-averse Europeans look for ways to travel or access areas,...
Myanmar: gradual opening
Myanmar plans to gradually open its borders in 2022, which will allow medical tourists to visit selected countries.
In the past as many as 150,000...
Somalia – outbound medical travel to India
The Republic of Somaliland has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chennai-based Deepam Hospitals to help the citizens of the country who travel to...
Insurance for Malaysia medical travellers
With more international travel destinations making Covid-19 insurance part of the entry requirements, inbound medical tourists to Malaysia now have a new option. Tune...
Recovery funding for health tourism in Greece
Small and medium-sized tourism enterprises in Greece will be able to tap into €1.6 billion (US$1.81 billion) in recovery funding by the end of 2021.
Small Greek...
Travel: prioritise the individual traveller-based approach
The European Tourism Manifesto Alliance of 70 travel and tourism organisations have expressed their support to any effort based on scientific evidence to keep...