11-Oct-16 Macao in southern China - renowned as Asia's 'Las Vegas' - has tabled plans to become a hub to make traditional Chinese medicine more standardized and scientific, and to further develop it to enable it to be sold around the world. [image: Xinhua]

09-Oct-16 Medical tourism to Thailand from the UAE is expected to remain strong despite changes to Abu Dhabi health insurance policies. In Apr-16, the Health Authority cut benefits to encourage medical treatment in Abu Dhabi. "We have seen no impact yet of the changes in health insurance policies in Abu Dhabi," said Tanes Petsuwan from Tourism Authority of Thailand. [image: Saeed Khan / AFP]

09-Oct-16 The Manila-based Medical City hospital group is boosting its presence in the UAE, to promote medical tourism to the Philippines. It opened a AED10 mn polyclinic in Dubai in October 2015. It will be followed by more clinics in the city and the Northern Emirates in 2017, mostly through acquisitions. [image: The National]

06-Oct-16 The medical value travel (MVT) industry is a fast growing segment of India's tourism industry, worth USD3 bn with 15% CAGR. However there is significant potential for accelerated growth. While 11 mn people travelled to seek treatment in 2015, only 500,000 travelled to India. MVT could reach USD9 bn by 2020 and establish India as ‘The provider to the world’. [image: DNA]

02-Oct-16 746,000 foreign visitors landed in Turkey for medical treatment in 2015. As many as 100,000 arrived for hair implant surgeries, two-thirds of them from the UAE. Turkey earned US$5.8 bn from legal medical tourism in 2015. Medical treatment in Turkey can cost as little as half the price in countries such as Germany and the United States. [image: Murad / Reuters]