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Transformative Travel: Wellness Travel and Medical Tourism

ed — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:22:28 +0000

Reprinted: healthnews, 5-10-2023 Journeys to new places have the potential to awaken our minds, ultimately leading to enlightenment. In addition, an excursion, whether nearby or abroad, may be life-changing if it prompts one to reflect on one’s identity and life goals. What is transformative travel? People travel for numerous reasons. They travel to escape their mundane Read More

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From holidaymaker to hospital patient

ed — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 20:11:08 +0000

As the Caribbean’s tourism sector continues to expand post-pandemic, is medical assistance provision keeping up? Megan Gaen investigates. Idyllic islands, beautiful beaches, tropical paradise: all synonymous with the Caribbean. Healthcare and evacuation, not so much – though possibly crucial for visitors to the region. Seeing the inside of a local hospital is not usually on Read More

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Medical tourism looking sickly as patients watch their spending

ed — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:51:00 +0000

BUDAPEST, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Attila Knott has an empty dental hospital in Hungary. The foreigners with bad teeth he was counting on never arrived, deterred first by COVID-19 and now by a cost-of-living crisis that has left the medical tourism industry struggling to recover even after the lifting of pandemic travel restrictions. “People are Read More

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State sponsored medical travel… Boom or bust?

ed — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 22:08:26 +0000

International patients funded by governments are much fewer than for other self-funded medical travel niches, but the revenue generated from their treatment is much, much higher. A number of factors are however going to impact the future of this aspect of medical travel, says IMTJ editor in chief Keith Pollard in his latest blog. Medical Read More

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Medical travel increases to Dominican Republic

ed — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 20:46:17 +0000

The Turks and Caicos Islands state paid US$7 million for medical procedures in health centres in the Dominican Republic in 2021. From January 2022, the two countries will also strengthen health tourism and educational programmes aimed at the medical profession. One health cluster in the Dominican Republic is also proposing a shift from promoting low-cost Read More

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Cayman Islands medical travel progress

ed — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:39:02 +0000

The Cayman Islands Department of Planning has given approval to Health City Cayman Islands for the planned US$100 million medical campus and hospital expansion at Camana Bay. The aim is to reduce the number of local citizens traveling off island to receive care. The state-of-the-art Camana Bay medical campus will become the first hospital in the region Read More

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The changing landscape of medical travel

ed — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:09:01 +0000

Despite the impact of the pandemic on medical travel and tourism in general, it seems that the enthusiasm for announcing a new medical tourism initiative has not waned. New destinations are appearing and some developing, and established destinations are renewing their efforts to set out their stall for the prospective medical traveller. The pandemic has Read More

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Medical tourism market set to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic

ed — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 19:27:40 +0000

With the resumption of travel, medical tourism is set to see growth by the end of 2022 at pre-pandemic rates as demand is being restored. Medical tourism is a form of international travel where patients travel to seek medical procedures or surgeries that are often unaffordable or not readily available in their primary country of Read More

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Medical travel agencies and facilitators – survival of the fittest?

ed — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:14:05 +0000

The advent of the pandemic and its impact on travel has hit businesses involved in travel and tourism more than any other sector. In most parts of the world, medical travel has come to a halt and will be slow to recover. How has this changed the facilitator model? With the pandemic driven shutdown of Read More

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Bringing international patients to Cuba

ed — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 16:33:05 +0000

Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos de Cuba (CMSC) is getting ready to promote Cuba as a medical travel destination to new foreign patients, with the reopening of the country’s borders. CMSC is a state company that bundles the 16 Cuban institutions that provide more than 100 types of health services to foreign individuals on the island, ranging Read More

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