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Health Tourism
Tourism for mental healthBangkok Post, Thailand - Jul 20, 2008You've heard of "medical tourism" and "health and wellness tourism". Now, get ready for a new one: "Mental Health Tourism". A paper presented by Japanese ... |
Drinking problem just won’t go away in NSTheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 2 hours agoIn the meantime, the department is working with the Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia to update rules on training for servers. ... |
Medical Tourism
Welcome changeKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 2 hours agoIt could also give a thrust to medical tourism. Revenues from tourism are expected to bolster the economy and extend the country's growth. ... |
Medical tourism to get fillipKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - Jul 17, 2008By Asma Ali Zain (Our staff reporter) The time is right for the UAE to make forays into the fledgling global medical tourism industry as experts say that ... |
Medical Tourism Market in AsiaFocus on Travel News, Turkey - Jul 17, 2008Medical or health tourism is among the fastest growing industries in the world. Medical tourism market is characterized by tough competition in the Asian ... |
Dental Tourism
Dentaprime Dashes Dental Tourism DoubtsPress Dispensary (press release), UK - Jul 1, 2008“All of a clinic’s activities have an influence on the quality of the actual dental treatment,” says Dr. Schindjalova. “Conflicts of scheduling or stressed ... |
Dental tourismDentistry.co.uk, UK - Jul 1, 2008Be very careful before deciding to do this. The news papers are full of stories about naïve patients who go abroad for treatment, attracted by the cheapness ... |
Be cautious of dental vacationWindsor Star, Canada - Jul 3, 2008Dental vacations or dental tourism refers to people looking for dental treatment outside of their local health care system in another country. ... |
Macau Set to be Medical Tourism Destination華富財經, Hong Kong - Jul 6, 2008MALO CLINIC is world's number one in Fixed Oral Rehabilitation and its educational centre offers training programs for over 3500 dental professionals ... |
Top-class medical facility takes shapeFiji Times, Fiji - 4 hours agoMr Wade said the association has already refurbished the hospital's eye and dental clinic, upgraded the pharmacy and a house for visiting medical ... |
HealthCare Abroad
Jul 14, 2007 - - Australia's Herald Sun reports increase in number of botched cosmetic surgeries received in Asia. - Australia
Jun 24, 2007 - - Wellmed Media has officially launched the first exclusive news portal on Arab medical tourism industry.
- UAE
Jan. 13, 2007 - - Healthcare tourist becomes quadriplegic after language barrier interpretation error. - Philippines
Jan 8, 2007 - - Chandigarh - HealthCare Tourism Destination faces acute shortage of Ambulances. Source: Indian Express Newspapers
May 29, 2006 - - Outsourcing Your Heart - Time Magazine
May 9, 2006 - - Americans increasingly traveling overseas for cheaper surgeries - USA Today
May 3, 2006 - - India Offers Both Best, Worst of Health Care
May 26, 2005 - - Medical Tourism - ABC Radio National
March 26, 2005 - - A Passage to India for Medical Treatment
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Jul. 5, 2008 - - HTI relaunches HTI Compliance program for health tourism operators, clinics and hospital referral agencies.
Feb. 8, 2008 - - HTI terminates non-clinical accreditation program; releases full protoocol to the public as open source to promote global health travel safety.
Jan. 28, 2008 - - HTI announces that as many as 1 million Americans will receive health care abroad in 2008, with up to 40% seeking dental services and 23% seeking cosmetic surgery.
Jan. 27, 2008 - - - -HTI publishes 1st annual health travel trends for the health tourism industry.
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Jan. 22, 2008 - - HTI announces that dental services and India top the list of most popular procedures and locations for health travel.
Dec. 13, 2007 - - HealthCare Tourism International opens first international office in South America - Quito, Ecuador.
Oct. 15, 2007 - - HealthCare Tourism International opens first international office in Asia - Gurgaon, India.
Oct. 8, 2007 - - HealthCare Tourism International to Chair and present at International Medical Tourism Forum, 2007 - Goa, India.
Sept. 8, 2007 - - HealthCare Tourism International launches the worlds first accreditation program for Health Tourism Companies.
- Los Angeles
Mar. 17, 2007 - - HealthCare Trip on track to launch providers accreditation service by July, 2007; Beta-accreditation system to be tested in June.
Jul. 30, 2006 - - HealthCare Trip to launch a new HealthCare Tourism accreditation service for health care tourism operators, agencies, hotels and hired car/chaffeur driver companies.
Jul. 24, 2006 - - HealthCare Trip Launches Free Non-Profit Portal For Patients Traveling Abroad For HealthCare (Health Tourism, Medical Tourism and Dental Tourism).
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