Germany: Medical tourism profile
Overview
Inbound medical tourism 2019 | 100,000 |
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Tourists 2019 | 38 million |
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Population 2021 | 83.8 million |
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German healthcare is one of the best, most efficient, most advanced and most available in the world. Germany owes its leading position to the unparalleled level of collaboration between science, research, industry and medicine.
Inbound
Medical tourism numbers in
Jens Juszczak of the Bonn- Rhein- Sieg University of Applied Sciences has found:
Outbound
Medical tourism numbers out
Between 2006 and 2011 holidays at wellness and spa resorts rose by 30%. By contrast, medical travel has declined, according to the findings of the World Travel Monitor, commissioned by ITB Berlin, over the same period the number of cure, rehabilitation and hospital stays abroad has fallen by 18%.
Environment
Medical tourism promotion
The German National Tourist Office has a sales office in Dubai and there promotes the quality of German medical care to Arab patients from Middle East countries, Arab patients mostly travel with their family members and the region works closely with local luxury hotels. This targeting of all the requirements of the patient and wider travelling family, often including several servants, means this region of Germany locks out competitors just offering medical care. Several national and local organisations promote both health tourism and medical tourism.
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Medical tourism news and opinion
- Medical travel: why we should stop focusing on increased numbers
Medical travel analyst Ian Youngman argues that medical tourism destinations need to stop concentrating on increased numbers. Mainstream tourism countries, including regions and cities in
- South Korea: malpractice review poses risks for medical travel sector
Health minister Cho Kyoo-hong is set to review measures to relieve the burden of medical professionals in South Korea, including possibly enacting a special law
- What exactly is Health Tourism?
Can you, and should you, promote your offering as a ‘wellness’ service? From a marketing point of view, the critical issue is the expectations of