Costa Rica: Medical tourism profile

Overview

Inbound medical tourism 2019	15,000
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Inbound medical tourism 2021	Login to view
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Outbound medical tourism	Login to view
Tourists 2019	3.1 million
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Population 2021	5.14 million
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Costa Rica makes much noise as a destination but poor quality care and poor promotion plus lack of real regulation holds it back.

Overview

Inbound

Outbound

Environment

Inbound

Medical tourism numbers in

Tourism numbers to CR for health and medical care:

Outbound

Medical tourism numbers out

A few hundred or low thousands.

Medical tourism promotion

The Costa Rica Foreign Commerce Ministry and the Foreign Trade Promotion Agency (PROCOMER) sought to promote medical tourism through participation in fairs, reinforcing studies and creating new connections with foreign health institutions- but this vanished into thin air.