Tag: Medical Tourism
Thai travel firm eyes medical tourists from China
Thailand-based travel firm Really Really Cool (RRC) has partnered Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS) to sell bespoke medical tourism packages specifically tailored for Chinese...
Medical tourism generates over 30% of SE Asian private hospital revenue:...
Medical tourism generates one-third or more of revenue for private hospitals in most South-east Asian countries, according to a new report by Zion Market...
Seeking out wellness in China
China is making great efforts to develop health and wellness tourism, leveraging its traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts specialities
Abu Dhabi’s medical tourism push poses competition to SE Asia
Abu Dhabi's Department of Culture & Tourism (DCT) is stepping up efforts to position itself as a destination for medical tourism, posing potential competition...
Minnesota hotel to materialise from Mayo Clinic’s partnership with Pontiac Land
Mayo Clinic and Singapore-based Pontiac Land Group have partnered to kick off a long-planned expansion of the Gonda Building on Mayo's Rochester (Minnesota) campus...
AirAsia Indonesia, MHTC to promote Penang’s medical tourism sector
AirAsia Indonesia has signed an MoU with Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC) to jointly promote Penang as Malaysia’s top healthcare tourism destination.
MHTC will arrange...
Sheraton Imperial KL intensifies courtship of healthcare travellers
Sheraton Imperial Kuala Lumpur Hotel has become the first hotel in Malaysia to be certified a "Medi-Secure-Safe Hotel" by medical tourism resource Ticadoc, part...
Partnerships for a healthier sector
The medical tourism sector is proving to be good business therapy for hotels located in the vicinity of major hospitals in Asia.
Visit Miri campaign gets lift from Wings Air’s Pontianak flights
Indonesian LCC Wings Air launched twice-daily flights between Pontianak and Miri on March 15, a timely addition amid the Visit Miri 2018 campaign.
With the...
Malaysia opens doors to medical tourists from Bangladesh
Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC) has entered into a partnership agreement with Bangladesh's NCH Consumer Healthcare for patient referrals to Malaysia.
As the healthcare traveller...