Brussels, 25 February 2021. The European Tourism Manifesto alliance, a group of more than 60 public and private travel and tourism organisations and the voice of the sector in Europe, today unveiled a series of joint recommendations for EU Member States on how to relaunch travel and tourism in Europe in time for summer 2021.…
Health Tourism Industry – HTI’s new partner in Europe – Bookingsmed.com – was founded by the Italian brand World Fine Selections – WFS. Mariaantonietta Princivalle, CEO of WFS, founded the company in 2012, in Veneto, Italy. Born as a DMC, it has never stopped evolving. In those years, a great transformation took place in tourism:…
Brussels, 9 February 2021. The European Tourism Manifesto alliance, the voice of the European travel and tourism sector, calls on Member States to urgently agree on harmonised travel restrictions and ensure swift implementation to help the sector survive this unprecedented crisis. Note: The European Tourism Manifesto alliance gathers more than 60 European public and private…
Ten years after adopting the law, the European Commission launched a public consultation to evaluate patients’ rights under the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive 2011/24. The Directive grants EU nationals the right to seek planned healthcare in another EU country and to claim reimbursement for treatment from their national health system or health insurance provider. This evaluation…
HESTOUREX World Health, Sports and Alternative Tourism Congress & Exhibition will be held 1-3 April 2021 in Antalya, Turkey. HESTOUREX is Turkey’s first and only multidisciplinary platform established to introduce its potential in Health, Sport and Alternative Tourism by developing bilateral co-operations between the countries in global professional business meetings. Simultaneously with the exhibition, HESTOUREX…
After delivering the Health Travel ABC manual published by Visit Finland, HTI offered a webinar about the three large source markets (Russia, China and the UAE). It included the surveys carried out with professional organizations providing health care services to customers in Russia and China, and most interesting facts are presented furthermore. Russia: travellers seek…
The prestigious group of aesthetic clinics – German Medical Technology Clinics – is looking to establish a partnership or intense collaboration with the leading European clinics offering innovative treatments and with manufacturers of state-of-the-art technology, not present on the Russian market yet. GMT Clinics is a chain of multidisciplinary medical centres for anti-age medicine in…
The first ESPA Forum on the Corona Recovery Concept in the European medical spas and climate health resorts has been launched on 17th December, and its virtual edition is now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3KyW_2nOts&feature=youtu.be “A healthy mind in a healthy body”. The European medical spas offer an important complementary option to the vaccine. Even the vaccine…
Visit Finland, the national tourism organization of Finland has launched a manual Health Travel ABC that aims to serve as a guideline to Finnish service providers who intend to make a firm step in the international health travel market. Finland has a clear focus on health travel services offered and its target markets, and a…