International Medical Travel Journal: News
- Despite local doctors mounting an aggressive ‘medical tourism is dangerous’; campaign to protect their income, an increasing number of...
- A travel agent specialist course on medical and wellness travel is under development by The Travel Institute and Well-Being Travel.
Well-Being...
- Christina deMoraes founded the International Medical Tourism Chamber of Commerce (IMTCC) in 2012. It is based in California in the USA. It is still...
- The Health Consumer Powerhouse (HCP) monitors and compares healthcare systems among 35 countries, including all EU member states as well as Canada....
- With significant government backing, Turkey is rapidly expanding in medical tourism and has set itself some ambitious goals.
The Ministry of Health...
- Rwanda wants to become a medical tourism destination to boost foreign earnings. But it has few world-class medical facilities, and those are provided...
- Americans going overseas for medical treatment will find it long and difficult, if not impossible, to sue for medical negligence either in the US or...
- Manouchehr Jahanian of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization has stated that Iran hosted 200,000 health tourists in 2012,...
- The Taiwan government wants to open up more of its health care sector to foreigners and encourage overseas medical investment.
The government set up...
- The NHS for England is consulting on the UK government’s suggestions for implementing a directive that concerns patients’ rights to...
- The Greek government is finally looking at developing medical tourism, but is it too late?
A bill for the development of medical tourism in Greece...
- Hopes that the EU cross-border healthcare directive would increase patient flows across borders are fading as reports show cash strapped hospitals...
- Hungarian Tourism plc is now actively promoting medical tourism globally, but targeted mostly at Western Europe.
Hungary is one of the flagship...
- Taiwan is doing rather well at attracting health and medical tourists, with a constant supply of new ideas.
In the eastern county of Hualien,...
- The Polish Medical Tourism Consortium is an initiative of the Ministry of Economy backed by the private sector. It is targeting potential patients,...
- The number of foreign tourists visiting South Korea for medical treatment is increasing but held back by government regulations on local hospitals,...
- Mexico may offer nearby care at lower prices to Americans, but it is struggling with perceptions of drug wars, violence, and poor quality care. This...
- The Asia Medical Travel Council (AMTRAC) and the Thai Medical Tourism Association (TMTA) have signed a deal that makes the national medical...
- While the overall level of health across the WHO European Region has improved, European health statistics show inequities within and between...
- As part of a long term plan to be a medical tourism destination rather than just a source of patients, China's southernmost island of Hainan Province...
