Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital, the world’s largest facility of its kind and one of the main tourist attractions in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, has won the prestigious ‘Golden Tourism Award’ by the Madrid-headquartered Trade Leaders Club, a business organization representing 7000 producers and service providers across 120 countries according to a report [...]
The Medical Tourism Association has spent a year producing a documentary on Medical Tourism called, “Angels Overseas ~ Costa Rica Edition.” The documentary provides insight into the high quality of healthcare that Americans and traveling patients worldwide can receive when they travel to a foreign country.
This documentary is the story, about Bob, one of [...]
HO CHI MINH City travel agents unveiled on June 12 insurance packages for outbound tourists to reassure visitors at a time when A/H1N1 flu is sweeping around the world.
The insurance provides a maximum cover of 50,000 USD for passengers travelling to Europe and 10,000 USD for those going elsewhere, said Vo Anh Tai, director of [...]
Medical Travel experts Global MD, Inc.’s Amanda Hayes-Kibreab, Esq. (http://www.yourglobalmd.com) attended the Self-Insurance Institute of America’s annual conference for self-insured employers. At the conference, Ms. Hayes-Kibreab met with a variety of health care companies, insurers, third party administrators, employers and stakeholders to introduce them to the benefits of medical travel. Ms. Hayes Kibreab introduced conference [...]
A lawmaker said Wednesday that the medical tourism deficit caused by the gap between inbound and outbound medical tourists has been widening in recent years.
Rep. Choi Young-hee of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) called for a bigger government role in helping reduce the deficit and promote Korea as a medical tourism hub for foreigners.
“Poor [...]
Medical tourism is set to become a big part of the solution to U.S. healthcare woes. Or so stated noted speaker and futurist Dr. Michael G. Zey, author of Ageless Nation, in his recent speech at the World Future Society conference in Washington DC.
In his DC speech he emphasized the key role medical tourism will [...]
In 2009, Phuket has been chosen to host The World Medical Health Tourism Conference, an international and most diverse networking opportunity which will be attended by participants from various countries worldwide. Mr. Callaghan, the convenor says, “ Phuket is the ideal location to hold the conference because of it’s tourism and medical infrastructure and it’s [...]
