A new report has just been released titled “Thailand Medical Tourism Market (Spending) Analysis & Forecast” which covers current statistics and estimates to the year 2018. The report isn’t free, so if you are curious and have 948 Euros (whoa, what?) you could pick up a copy. No doubt reports like this are costly to […]

I saw the headline “Five Medical Tourism Myths” that is the title of an article over at the IMJT blog and it caught my eye because not long ago I published here an article that included three common myths about medical tourism to Thailand. So I jumped over and read it but alas, they are […]

In my news feed I noticed an item posted today from the International Medical Travel Journal about some new visa exemptions for medical tourists. The story says “The new regulations allow nationals from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, to stay in Thailand for medical treatment up to 90 days without a […]

There have been numerous discussions on the possible impact of medical care on a country’s public medical services. Of particular concern to some people is the possibility that the residents of poor countries could face shortages of doctors and hospital beds due to “rich” foreign patients utlizing them. The presumed mechanism is that the lucractive […]