Medical tourism in the Muslim world with a twist. Because this year, experts not only from the Islamic countries, but also from the West are giving insight on how best to prop up medical tourism in the developing nations, specially in the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
Speaking to Press TV, on the final day of the Second International Conference on Health Tourism in Iran’s city of Mashhad, the experts also talked about the challenges faced by medical tourism.
VO: At the end of the two-day event, the participants signed cooperation MoUs to help set up health tourism branches in the OIC member states. These centers will help coordinate the trends of medical tourism development and organize annual meetings in collaboration with the Secretariat of Islamic Health Tourism Association in Iran.
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For 2011, the German National Tourist Board’s tourism campaign will focus on health and medical tourism. This includes health and fitness, spas, health resorts, wellness and beauty hotels, hospitals and clinics.
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The first ever detailed study on health and medical tourism in Australia,’ Health tourism in Australia: supply, demand and opportunities” has been published by the government funded Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre. This technical report presents a robust understanding of health and wellness tourism in Australia, and to a much lesser extent, medical tourism. It provides information and outcomes relevant for future development of the wellness and medical tourism industries in Australia.
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The Ministry of Health and the Cyprus Tourism Organization (CTO) are set to announce a strategic plan to promote medical tourism in Cyprus.
In statements after a meeting with the CTO leadership, the Minister of Health Christos Patsalides said that “the plan concerning grants for the accreditation of private hospitals has already been completed and is set to be announced”.
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TOKYO — Japan, battling to revive its economy, on Friday pledged to create five million jobs through a 10-year growth strategy centred on green technology, health care, tourism and closer links with Asia.
The centre-left government of Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who took office last week, has pledged to end two decades of stagnation in Asia’s biggest economy and achieve stable real economic growth above 2.0 percent a year.
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NEW DEHLI: Even as the US government is trying to bring down healthcare costs, hospitals in India are hopeful that their medical tourism industry will not be affected.
Many Indian hospitals have tied up with US corporates to treat their employees at affordable rates.
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Laser dentistry in India are offered with best medical facilities and provided at an economical budget. Medical tourism can be broadly defined as the provision of ‘cost effective’ private medical care in collaboration with the tourism industry for patients needing surgical and other forms of specialized treatment.
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Healthcare will soon become more patient-friendly and tailored in an attempt to encourage more people to take responsibility for managing their health and as new tools, technology and health information give consumers power to take charge, according to the latest in the HealthCast series of reports on health industry trends published today by PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute. The trend will be reflected in significant healthcare business model changes, regulatory health reforms and realignment of financial incentives over the next five years.
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Costa Rica is fast becoming a main destination for medical tourism, as foreigners seek out professional medical attention at a price lower than in their country of origin. The list of services sought out include elective procedures, as well as specialized surgeries.
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The Medical Tourism Association along with KHIDI announces Dr. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Rabeeah, Minister, Health Ministry of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a speaker for the upcoming regional conference, the 1st Global Healthcare & Medical Tourism Conference Korea which will take place in Seoul, Korea on April 13th-15th 2010.
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