International Medical Travel Journal: News
- Wellness holiday specialist Health and Fitness Travel has forecast the top wellness travel trends for 2012:
Spa and cultureMore spas around the...
- Global Health Voyager has bought US medical tourism agency PlanetHospital from Healthcare International Networks. Rudy Rupak, founder of...
- Although China is promoted as a medical tourism destination, with the difficulty of getting visas and lack of destinations, the numbers going there...
- Groups of Japanese medical tourists can now take a direct charter flight from Komatsu, Japan to Taiwan. Groups tend to visit some of the ancient...
- While medical tourism concentrates heavily on price, wellness and spa tourism is promoting quality, excellence, and professionalism.
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- Filipinos living abroad are a huge market for medical tourism, says Joyce Socao-Alumno of HealthCore Philippines. She says that in the USA there are...
- Fortis Healthcare (India) is paying $665 million to acquire Singapore-based Fortis Healthcare International, a business run by the Indian company's...
- Aintree University Hospital and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust have been recognised internationally as leaders in...
- The loudest and most frequent criticism of cosmetic surgery tourism in the UK, Australia and elsewhere is that 'it is not safe’. But what tends...
- While many medical tourism agencies have come and gone, US agency MedToGo International has increased the number of American patients it takes to...
- Mercury Healthcare International (MHI) has selected Practice Fusion, the fastest growing electronic medical record community in the USA, for its...
- The U.S. Travel Association has commended legislation by Senator Charles Schumer and Senator Mike Lee that would create jobs by stimulating...
- White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia is to be the location for a new medical initiative. Work is due to begin soon on the first phase of The...
- European news is currently focused on the economic crises in several EU countries. The official line on Cross-Border Healthcare legislation is that...
- The cost of facelifts, tummy tucks, liposuction and breast enlargements in the UK is set to rise by 20% after new government guidelines on Value...
- Medical service providers, hotels and travel agents are establishing their own association to develop and promote Thailand as a medical tourism...
- Bulgaria has a new tourism strategy for the next decade, which includes the launch of an enhanced advertising campaign called 'Bulgaria: Magic Lives...
- A large new health and wellness centre to be developed in South Africa will be the first of its kind in the world, says Dr Colleen Coetzee, “We...
- Switzerland is often cited by the medical tourism industry as having excellent quality healthcare to match other top performers such as Germany....
- An analysis of defunct Canadian medical tourism agencies.
Medical tourism companies play an important role in promoting medical travel for...
