ticotimes.net - Dental tourism remains the top medical tourism venture in Costa Rica. Of the tens of thousands of medical tourists who visit the country each year, 40 percent come to undergo dental procedures. To try to gain the upper hand against their competition, some dental offices offer extremely low

compiled by Maria Lenhart New Bali Hospital Teams Up with Marriott Courtyard Indonesia's BIMC Hospital Group formed a partnership with the Courtyard by Marriott Bali to provide the country's first-ever medical tourism packages for inbound travelers. The hotel, which is located in Bali's Nusa Dua resort complex, is offering aftercare

by Maria Lenhart Eager to learn more about the promising niche of medical and wellness travel, travel sellers gathered last week at the first-ever Well-Being and Medical Travel Conference at the Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz. The event, which was co-sponsored by Travel Market Report, marked a milestone for

A ground-breaking product from Passport2Health, a new entrant to the private healthcare insurance market, is set to change the shape of UK health coverage and challenge the high cost of traditional private medical insurance (PMI). If you're looking for registered health insurers in Australia, which has typical savings of up

A new report from Renub Research titled Thailand Medical Tourist Arrivals, Medical Tourism Market & Forecast to 2015 provides a comprehensive analysis of the Thailand Medical tourism market covering in detail various aspects such as foreign patients' arrivals, revenue from foreign patients, competitive landscape and market share of the foreign patients' arrivals

Laura Carabello, publisher of Medical Travel Today, recently addressed the audience at the Well-Being and Travel Conference in Scottsdale, AZ on the topic of "The Rise of a Global Healthcare System". At the request of attendees and other interested parties, she has made the presentation available to readers.

Amanda, The problem with our medical care here in the US is that it's based on an economic model that is a disaster. Quality has caved in to the adoption of directives here that remove the humanity from healthcare, employing hospitalists who do nothing other than provide the hospitals with

By Laura Carabello Georgetown, Exuma - Directly across the road from the "Fish Fry" eateries on Queens Highway - the only paved end-to-end main artery on the sleepy 37 mile (60 km) island of Exuma - is the construction site of a 10- to12-bed community hospital. A $14 million building project, not

Editor's Note: Just as this issue was getting ready to publish, we were alerted to an article in the May issue ofThe Self-Insurer, a publication of the Self-Insurance Institute of America. Written by David Boucher of Companion Global Healthcare, the story's focus is the factors compelling American employers to consider incentivizing

Travelmarketreport.com - Adding medical travel to the employee benefit menu can be a plus both for the employer and for its corporate travel department. One obvious benefit - the additional air and hotel volume associated with medical travel --count toward contract performance minimums and rebate thresholds. And one less-obvious benefit