Medical tourism development in the Balkans: Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania
Romanian medical tourism saw 60,000 foreign arrivals in 2011, with dental, ophthalmic and cosmetic surgery services being the most sought after, says Emilian Imbrifrom...
What are the goals and benefits?
In his Second Opinion column, Dr Constantine Constantinides from healthCare cybernetics looks at the growing interest in Healthcare Free Zones, how they may aid...
Medical tourism skyrockets, or does it?
This week another medical tourism news story hit the headlines. According to the New York Daily News, “Medical tourism skyrockets...Turnover is expected to total...
Soter puts forward a different view on international medical accreditation and certification
Many potential medical tourists are told that the only safe hospitals are those with international accreditation; many Americans are told that they should only...
Central Europe promoting medical tourism
Medical tourism has been identified as a lucrative market for many Central European countries. Tourism promotion agency CzechTourism has launched Internet campaigns targeting Britain,...
Spain and the UK speak out against medical tourism
In recent weeks, both the Spanish and British health services have openly attacked medical tourism. (See Express article: Anger over NHS health tourists). But...
African countries seeking to reduce outbound medical tourism
Several African countries want to reduce the flow of outbound medical tourism, mostly to India, and eventually become local medical tourism destinations. While several...
New national tourism strategy will help inbound medical tourism to the USA
The first ever national strategy to promote all forms of inbound tourism to the USA, and make it quicker and easier for people to...
Jeju Healthcare Town in Korea to attract medical tourists
Jeju Healthcare Town, part of Jeju Free International City Development Center (JDC), has broken ground and expects to be built by 2015 on the...
Price is used to judge quality, but quality is also used
New research looking at cosmetic surgery tourism shows that different destinations are targeting potential customers in different ways with different messages.
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