International Medical Travel Journal: News
- Dubai Health Authority has agreed new visa rules that allow medical tourists to stay longer. But in return for this, every hospital and clinic has...
- In a recent presentation on marketing Cyprus as a medical tourism destination, Nikos Anastassiades of the local AIMIS Spine hospital concluded:...
- Taiwan is attracting record numbers of Chinese medical tourists and has taken steps to increase numbers further.
Taiwan's National Immigration...
- Iran expects final medical tourism figures for 2012 to be 200,000. 85,670 medical tourists arrived in Iran during the first half of the Iranian year...
- South Korea will take away the medical tourism licences of any hospital or clinic that continues to get business via unregistered medical tourism...
- Romania is one of the up and coming destinations for dental tourism. Overseas customers represent a growing percentage of revenue for local dental...
- Medical tourism has an increased profile, and is attracting serious academic study. Much academic research has been hidden away in obscure journals,...
- Reproductive tourism, people crossing international borders to purchase assisted reproductive technologies is a multi-million dollar industry. But...
- Malaysian singer-composer Michael Wong’s Mandarin hit song Wo Men De Gu Shi has been made the official music video to promote the country as a...
- Switzerland is becoming more popular as a destination for wellness and medical tourism. More private hospitals, spas, wellness centres and clinics...
- The number of Russians going to Finland for medical care or a wellness holiday is expected to increase substantially in the next few years.
Finpro...
- A tourism minister in Indonesia has stated that Indonesia has the potential to become a health tourism destination. Yet in 2012, a record number of...
- There are more signs that domestic internal US medical tourism is taking off for employers and individuals.
Cleveland Clinic and Boeing have...
- After a recent conference of the European Spas Association on the future of health resorts and health tourism companies in the EU, held at Usedom in...
- The medical tourism research group at Simon Fraser University in Canada will continue its series of studies into global medical tourism, and has...
- Turkey will establish free health zones to attract patients from overseas, says health minister Recep Akdağ, “With the free health zones,...
- 2011 figures from International Promotion for Costa Rican Medicine (Promed) suggest that the number of medical tourists to Costa Rica was 48,000,...
- There are many things wrong with China’s health service and as yet it attracts few medical tourists, while many more Chinese look overseas for...
- New research suggests that migrants to EU countries may prefer to go home for healthcare, not just for a short time, but for their lifetime after a...
- South Korea has been busy with teaching hospital executives about medical tourism, targeting Japan, and working out what it has to do...
