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- 15 Janerato in Medical Travel | NO COMMENTS
Why is the Caribbean not a top destination for medical travel
Caribbean beach ©Trish Hartmann/Flickr
The list of the top 10 destinations for medical travel in the last years start with Brazil, Costa Rica, South Korea, Malaysia and goes on without mentioning any country from the Caribbean.
Despite the fact that they educate many great doctors in the region, these countries still don’t really get their slice of the cake that made up more than 10% of the global GDP of 2013 and which is fashionably called the medical travel industry. Let us see why is the Caribbean not a top destination – or at least not yet… …
- 12 Decerato in Medical Travel | 2 COMMENTS
The future of medical tourism industry
A visit at the doctor now ©jpalinsad360/Flickr
In today’s developing world it is highly difficult to make accurate predictions about the future of one or another industry – medical tourism is not any different. And yet, there are certain signs and indicators that can give us some idea about what we can expect from this segment in the next decade.
Technological development, medical/ hospital costs and immigration reform are three strong and important indicators of what the future of medical tourism will bring. This will not be a very detailed and exhaustive description of the future but it will, hopefully give an idea of what will happen in the industry in the years coming. …
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