Malaysia reports Steady health tourism growth in 2013
For 15 years, Malaysia has steadily worked towards building a strong healthcare tourism sector. In the last 10 years, revenue from healthcare tourism increased...
Toronto hospital promotes medical tourism to Canada
A Toronto hospital piloting medical tourism has run into a media storm of protest that could kill the project, as it had been trying...
New survey on potential Russian medical tourists
A consumer survey on potential medical tourists visiting a medical tourism show is never going to be representative of Russian consumers, but it does...
A trustworthy service is more important than ever
As millions more leave their homelands seeking treatment, the world’s top healthcare providers ask how they can capture a piece of the market. Giving...
Leaps and bounds in Mexico’s reproductive tourism
Dr. Carolin Schurr (University of Zürich) and Dr. Heather Walmsley (University of British Columbia) spent January 2014 interviewing key stakeholders in the growing reproductive...
Patients need certificates to prove their identity
South Korea is a popular destination for Chinese medical tourists but the expertise of Korean plastic surgeons is causing problems at passport control.
South Korea...
How medical tourism has changed and who not to believe
Ian Youngman looks at how the medical tourism sector has changed over the last five years. Is it doom and gloom for an industry...
Is certification about quality, or just owning a printer?
A new industry is developing around the business of medical tourism. It's the certification business. You need an impressive sounding name, a web site,...
What can be learned from Passport2Health’s failure?
IMTJ looks at the history of Passport2Health, the first health insurance plan based on medical tourism, and highlights the lessons for the medical tourism...
New research study on medical tourism to Bangalore
The SFU Medical Tourism Research Group in Canada has released details of a study on medical tourism in Bangalore, India; 'An Overview of the...
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