The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is the development guardian of a sustainable Tourism Ecosystem. However, yet Medical Tourism does not have that advantage of a global organization fostering its bionetwork. Awareness of the importance of being sustainable helps to identify where we stand and how can we create mitigation plans for adverse situations.…
People around the world have been talking about a post-pandemic future since the pandemic first hit the headlines more than two years ago. But the wellness market emerging due to the coronavirus is not a return to 2019 at all, says Global Wellness Annual Trends Report. To help us all keep up with the ever-evolving…
Cruise wellness tourism was already a growing market niche before the pandemic. After nearly 30 months of confinement the demand will definitely soar. There is a potential for further health tourism approaches in the cruise line industry. However, two major issues have to be tackled to create a more agile cruise health tourism. These factors…
The COVID Pandemic has brought disarray to everyone’s life. For the Healthcare and Tourism stakeholders it has been particularly agonizing. All of us had to deal with a downfall of challenges and issues to tackle and defy, but we need to remain afloat as we are in this for a while. What draws another dimension…
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration” A famous Quote by Nicola Tesla. Although the vast majority of mainstream western medicine physicians would disagree with the quote above, yet my feeling is that this is what we miss in modern medicine. So far, we…
Medical tourism is characterized worldwide by many individual companies that are not organized in big chains or other types of conglomerates. Nonetheless, one can observe that medical tourist companies start to develop growth strategies assuming that the post-covid era begins soon. There are, as in many other businesses, different types of diversification. Firstly, the “therapeutic…
Medical Travel and Its Components Medical tourism consists of various aspects that all need to be recognized. The following five components play a major role, i.e., who travels, type of treatment, its legality, how the payment works, and the travelers’ social standard. All those aspects have to be recognized to ensure a successful business…
An interview with Sherif Hassan, MD that has been published on the Croatian tourism portal Turizmoteka.hr A well-deserved award for a country that has Hvar as the birthplace of European medical Tourism in 1868. So, stating that Croatia is a newcomer to the Health Tourism arena is a Myth. At the occasion of the new award to the…
Health travel in China has been rising in popularity for the last years. Nevertheless, there are a few details you need to learn about the Chinese people to understand why they travel abroad seeking medical assistance. One factor is the infrastructure – the Chinese are perfectly capable of building up a completely new and functional…
Health travel in China seems to be growing a lot, but many countries still struggle with getting Chinese patients. Where are they? Chinese patients “hide” in our health insurance system, that is, the social health care system. China’s social health care system has three levels of funding: The bottom level – funded by urban-rural medical…
What would be the impact of Covid-19 on health travel in Croatia? Like the rest of the world, Croatia had significantly fewer visitors this year. Yet, but there is still some good news to keep in mind. Following recent UNWTO findings, 80% of European travelers will choose Europe as a destination, 40% of them travel…
We are all well-aware of the challenges brought up by Covid-19, which forced us indeed to look for disruptive solutions. The same applies to health travel and tourism. Looking back to January 2020, the year started full of glory and full of hope about achieving courageous business plans and breaking new tourism records. Instead, we…
In the past 20 years, a lot of countries threw their hat on Medical Tourism and succeeded in attracting business to their country. Some focused on promoting wellness and preventive side of healthcare, a few offered cosmetic and aesthetic treatment, others positioned themselves as high-end tertiary care destination and the rest tried their luck with…
Body wellness is body hygiene from inside and outside. Body hygiene from inside means to supply the body with healthy food and to do a detox regularly. If we eat healthily and if we are aware of the necessity of regular detox, we will keep the gut immune system intact. Gut health is the cornerstone…
With the global wellness industry estimated value of $4.2 trillion in 2017, according to the nonprofit Global Wellness Institute (GWI), there is ever-growing interest and momentum in the development of that Industry. Quite interesting is the fact that the wellness travel market’s annual growth rate of 6.5 percent for the years 2015 to 2017 is…