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15-Oct-17 Chinese online travel booking site Ctrip revealed 500,000 Chinese travelled overseas for medical-related services in 2016. Bali become a hotspot with 150,000 visitors, and Indonesia has made it a priority to make the country a medical and wellness destination. [image:  Forbes / COMO Shambala Estate]

06-Oct-17 Chinese tourists are coming back to Thailand at the right time: Private hospitals there need to justify their sky-high valuations. Bumrungrad Hospital, which gets more than 60 percent of its sales from foreigners, is up 16 percent since Jan-17. [image: Bloomberg / Bloomberg Gadfly]

20-Sep-17 Chinese bike-sharing startups Mobike and Ofo are expanding in Southeast Asia. Bike-sharing is held up as a way to promote wellness in Malaysia. In Singapore, authorities are laying 700 km of bike lanes by 2030 to get people moving. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]

14-Sep-17 The Thai government is looking to attract medical tourists from newer markets, such as China, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, to take advantage of the growing affluence in those countries and the rising demand for professional healthcare services. [image: Thailand Business News]

13-Sep-17 The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons reported a 40% drop in visits to high-end UK facilities in 2016, as patients increasingly go abroad to locations such as Thailand and Dubai for low cost, high quality, patient-focused care. [image: The Telegraph]