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Medical Tourism 2008 - The Worldwide Business Guide
Ian Youngman, Nov 2007, Pages: 760
By 2010 medical travel is expected to be a $40-billion business, with over 780 million patients seeking care outside their principal country of residence. It is a huge worldwide business, but until now, reports and books have been aimed at patients. This groundbreaking report has a business focus.
Purpose of report
To investigate from a business perspective what is happening and will happen worldwide in all types of medical and health tourism.
Who needs it?
Bankers, consultants, development agencies, governments, health regulators, healthcare agencies, hospitals, hotels, insurers, intermediaries, investment groups, investors, medical associations, property companies, property developers, spas, State bodies, tour operators, tourist boards, trade associations and travel agents.
Questions posed
- Why is it happening?
- Where is demand coming from?
- Where are people going?
- Who is offering or planning to offer services?
- What is the relationship to insurance?
- Are there problems?
It could help you
- Access this market
- Stay ahead of the opposition
- Identify new income areas
- Gain from this developing sector
– Promote your country.
It could stop you
- Missing out on a growing market
- Providing the wrong type of service
- Missing out on deals
- Losing market share and existing customers
– Making assumptions on inaccurate information
Eight key points
1. Medical tourism is one of the fastest growing world business sectors.
2. There is a vast amount of misinformation about it online.
3. It includes health and wellness tourism.
4. Insurers can no longer ignore it.
5. Many countries tourism income increasingly depends on it.
6. There is a mushrooming of unregulated intermediaries.
7. It has an effect on national and international healthcare.
8. An increasing number of government and state agencies are involved.
No one who is seriously involved in medical tourism can afford to be without this groundbreaking report.
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