Medical tourism in Taiwan helped by rise in non-Chinese patients
07-Nov-16, Taipei Times
Despite the decline in the number of Chinese tourists visiting Taiwan, the medical tourism industry has enjoyed steady growth, thanks to a change of emphasis to visitors from Europe, North America, Hong Kong and Macau.
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Both the number of visitors coming for medical treatment or medical cosmetology and the output of the industry have been growing steadily. From 2008 to 2015, 63 medical institutions treating patients from abroad have seen the number of foreign patients rise from about 68,000 to about 300,000, ministry data showed.
The industry’s output has also increased from NTD2 bn (USD63.55 mn) to about NTD15.9 bn (USD505 mn) over the same period, the data showed.