Defining Medical Tourism or Not?
Many people have tried to define and re-define Medical Tourism, and some have even gone to extremes to create new words to define the industry of patients traveling from one country to another for medical care. Many of these new definitions or attempts to change terminology came about a year ago when a few in the industry felt “tourism” should never be associated with “medicine.” Read more
Philippine Quality Healthcare: Excellence is the Standard
A good number of those who have served in prestigious US hospitals have returned to the Philippines to cascade their knowledge to younger practitioners and to head the departments of the renowned medical hospitals and centers Read more
Marketing to the U.S. – Do You Really Know How?
The good old U.S.A. is the epitome of capitalism, and that’s good for the Medical Tourism Industry. There are no artificial barriers to marketing your facility, organization, products and services to the U.S. market; no government restrictions Read more
NEW AMA GUIDELINES ON MEDICAL TOURISM
On June 16, 2008 the American Medical Association (AMA) released its “Guidelines on Medical Tourism,” which set out to provide parameters for implementation of medical tourism and the processes that should be involved. Read more
SEAIR Partners with PMTI to Boost Medical Tourism in the Philippines
South East Asian Airlines (SEAIR) is the Philippine’s distinctive leisure airline. In 1995, it started with flights to Boracay and Palawan and now, it flies to 17 destinations in the country. Most, if not all of its destinations are considered paradise Read more
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