Can Malaysia build closer ties to tour operators?
At the 2022 World Travel Market (WTM) in the UK, Government agency, Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC), targeted tour operators, agents and airlines in a...
Targeting the American medical traveller
The open enrolment season for health insurance renewal for 2023 is gearing up, and is likely to show more people in the USA have...
Specialist centres in Saudi build on healthcare Vision 2030
Saudi Response Plus Medical (Saudi RPM), part of Response Plus Holding and one of the largest providers of on-site healthcare management, pre-hospital care medivac,...
Partnership to provide kidney treatment in Nigeria
The Zenith Medical and Kidney Centre (ZMKC) has entered a partnership with one of Nigeria’s leading health maintenance organisations, Songhai Health Trust Limited to...
Philippines: wellness with light touch medical tourism
The Philippines is now promoting wellness with touches of medical tourism, after failing at just promoting medical tourism.
It seems that the Philippines is now...
Destination management: learn from the wellness sector
Tourist destinations can learn from the wellness industry and should become more aligned to its principles post-Covid, a World Travel Market London Insight session...
Medical tourism numbers up in Mashad, Iran
The number of foreign nationals visiting Mashhad for medical services has jumped by 50% in the first half of the current Iranian year (started...
Indonesia plans medical tourism Special Economic Zone
Indonesia is establishing a medical tourism Special Economic Zone (SEZ) for medical and health tourism in Bali Province’s Sanur area. Construction has already begun...
Turkey improves medical tourism regulation
Turkey has taken several steps to ensure that health tourism services are properly regulated, with oversight from public officials. This should allow patients to...
IATA: 2022 global passenger survey results
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released the results of its 2022 Global Passenger Survey (GPS). Travellers top concerns in the post-COVID crisis...
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