Spain: Medical tourism profile
Overview
Inbound medical tourism 2019 | 140,000 |
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Tourists 2019 | 83.7 million |
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Population 2021 | 46.7 million |
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Spain’s private healthcare system is high quality and around a third of Spanish hospitals are independent. Spain has many excellent private hospitals and clinics.
Inbound
Medical tourism numbers in
Thousands of visitors arrive in Spain every year to undergo health treatments in Spanish hospitals, clinics and medical spas, but assessing numbers is not easy.
Outbound
Medical tourism numbers out
Only a few thousand leave Spain in search of medical treatment, perhaps less than 5,000.
Environment
Medical tourism promotion
Spain’s international tourism fair FITUR 2021 included a new section Fitur Health to promote the growing segment of medical and health 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
- UK medical travel abroad increases
Although there is subjective evidence showing an increase in the number of people from the UK seeking treatment abroad, numbers are not known. There is