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 residence. Some of the most frequently performed procedures for … [Read more...]
What is vaccine tourism and is it ethical?
You may have heard of “vaccine tourism,” the practice of traveling to other countries in order to obtain a vaccine—particularly a COVID-19 vaccine—more easily. This practice, however, is likely to do more harm than good insofar as pandemic management and public health are concerned. Not long after the COVID-19 vaccine rollout began in the United States and countries around the world, word … [Read more...]
Will the Covid Vaccine Bring Back Medical Tourism?
As the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine progresses, medical tourism operators eagerly await a spike in bookings. The industry was forecast to surpass $10 billion in annual revenue until the COVID-19 global pandemic struck in early 2020. Since then, both fear and government restrictions have limited travel for medical procedures. Understandably, the travel and … [Read more...]
In Search of a Vaccine, Some Tourists Find Luck in the Caribbean
Roughly 3 percent of vaccines in the U.S. Virgin Islands have gone to tourists, the governor said this week. “Nowhere else in the U.S. can you actually just walk in and get the vaccine,” he said. When Lydia Todman booked a trip to St. Croix with her husband earlier this month, she was hoping only for a relaxing getaway. But when she arrived, she learned she could also get the Covid-19 … [Read more...]
Is vaccine tourism ethical?
News is emerging about wealthy or powerful individuals buying their way to the front of the vaccine queue. A few travel and lifestyle organisations and medical travel destinations are also offering medical tourism vaccinations for those who are rich. But can some countries develop vaccine tourism if their local population is already protected against Covid-19? UK travel forecasting … [Read more...]