Posts Tagged ‘Asia Medical Tourism’

Thai Medical – Health and Wellness Tourism

Some websites promoting Thailand Medical – Health and Wellness Tourism argue that it had 750,000 American medical tourists in 2009 and Thailand will have 6 million medical tourists in 2010

There are significant doubts surrounding these claims by those who argue that hospitals counting visits rather than actual patients, and other distorting factors, artificially inflate the figures. Either way, these are not official figures, just widely used estimates

Many countries actually have two separate figures, one for medical tourism, and one for health and wellness tourism. Including the latter is a nightmare for statisticians: do you count a tourist who goes to a spa-hotel as a medical tourist or a holidaymaker?