Medical Tourism 2022: Middle East and Gulf Potential

The winds of change are sweeping across medical tourism in the Middle East and Gulf.

Once seen as just a source for other medical tourism destinations, some Middle East and Gulf states have taken stock and have or will seek to increase inbound medical tourism and reduce outbound medical tourism. 

Outbound medical tourism costs millions of dollars in exchange revenue but often looks to have massive inbound medical tourism potential. Huge expatriate numbers confuse the situation. Some states want to be destinations but will not succeed.

This unique analysis of regional medical tourism looks forward rather than back as the pandemic changed the rules of engagement forever.

Medical tourism in 2022 and beyond will not be a restart of how it was left in 2019 and earlier as there is no guarantee that previous trends will return.

This report looks at the potential and future in the context of how the Middle East and Gulf countries are improving healthcare, Medical tourism is too often looked at in isolation from mainstream tourism and ignoring vital information on local healthcare, compulsory health insurance and private health insurance.

The author is a specialist analyst, researcher, writer and publisher who for the last 30 years has specialised in medical tourism, international healthcare and international health insurance. The report offers a holistic view with profiles of leading countries.

A key section profiles 8 top existing and potential medical tourism destinations in the Middle East- for inbound and outbound. Another section profiles another 9 leading medical tourism sources. 

For those new to medical tourism, there is background such as how published numbers can be misleading, the role of key accreditors and why people become medical tourists.

To keep the report affordable it is only available as a downloadable PDF with no advertising, no images, no graphs and a few simple tables.

Who is the report for?

• Professionals working in global healthcare markets 
• Hospital and clinic groups operating internationally
• International patient departments
• Travel and medical travel agents
• Banks and other financial institutions
• Investors and private equity
• International insurers
• National government policy-makers
• Travel and tourism organisations
• Lawyers
• Policy advisors
• Think tanks
• Management consultants

Please Note: This report does not contain images, diagrams or price comparisons. It does include facts and figures - with tables when appropriate.