International Medical Travel Journal: News
- A new world-class hospital will be built on the site of the former St. Joseph Hospital in St. Peter as part of a long-term development programme that...
- Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is promoting medical tourism packages in collaboration with local hospitals. Dr Amin Khan of MAS says,” We are...
- The annual revenue for medical tourism to Turkey is expected to reach US$5 billion in 5 years (according to Government figures), as the...
- Every year since 2008, the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions has surveyed US health customers on a variety of topics. This year there were more...
- Although many South and Central American countries seek to be medical tourism destinations, not all are successful. Mexico is the market leader due...
- A recent court case has forced the Maltese government to clarify what it will and will not pay for on cross-border healthcare - other governments...
- Wellness Tourism Worldwide (WTW), a new global trade body based in the USA and Hungary, has been launched. It was founded by health and wellness...
- One of the pioneers of medical tourism, India has lost ground to many of the new entrants into the medical tourism market. Complex rules and...
- While the Ministry of Tourism is promoting Israel as a medical tourist destination and sponsoring medical tourism conferences, the Ministry of Health...
- As several private companies invest in local health tourism projects, the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) is urging the government to...
- Taking advantage of the publicity that medical tourism to Vietnam is getting, Nip and Tuck has added Vietnam to its international network, using...
- With sophisticated internet technology and the growing use of social media, a new US medical tourism service argues that outbound US travelers are...
- With news reports raising concerns about rising waiting lists in the UK, the ratification of an EU Directive may help relieve pressure on an...
- Mainland Chinese can now apply for solo visits to Taiwan under an agreement concluded by the Taipei-based Straits Exchange Foundation and its Beijing...
- WorldMed Assist, a US medical tourism agent for self-funded employers and consumers, has a new joint marketing venture with the San Carlos,...
- Only 1% of the total number of foreign tourists that went to the central European country of Georgia in 2010 did so for health reasons, according to...
- Malaysia’s Ministry of Health has reviewed and added seven hospitals and eight ambulatory-care facilities to 35 existing private hospitals in a...
- HOPE, the European Hospital and Health Care Federation asserts that many European health systems could soon be in crisis, in a report 'The Crisis,...
- In the UAE, the Ministry of Health has begun a health accreditation implementation plan. Dr. Hanif Hassan Ali, minister of health, said: "The...
- US based insurance broker Custom Assurance Placements has used its own customer base of medical tourists who bought Global Protective Solutions...
