Countries and cities with significant inbound medical travel, and how their systems are organised.
Unreviewed Written 13 October 2026| 14 sources| A medical purpose-of-travel category found in the official survey, published only for non-border tourists Medical Tourism in Mexico Verified against primary record Official statistic A medical care and wellness motive of travel, reported in the international travellers survey for non-border tourists only[1] Scale of that category 15,934 entries … Read more
Unreviewed Written 13 October 2026| 13 sources| The medical arrivals series found to be derived from visa type rather than declared purpose, in the publisher’s own definitional note Medical Tourism in India Verified against primary record Foreign arrivals on medical purpose 659,356 in 2023 and 644,387 in 2024, sourced to the Bureau of Immigration in … Read more
Unreviewed Written 13 October 2026| 8 sources| The tax guideline’s definition of a healthcare traveller found to include residents, which the statistics never define Medical Tourism in Malaysia Verified against primary record Tax incentive conditions Healthcare travellers must be at least 10 per cent of total patients and provide at least 10 per cent of … Read more
Unreviewed Written 13 October 2026| 8 sources| The reason no patient count is published traced to the collecting agency’s own confidentiality policy Medical Tourism in Thailand Verified against primary record What the state collects A survey of medical services provided to patients resident abroad, run by the health ministry with the central bank; results may … Read more
Unreviewed Written 9 October 2026| 4 sources| Dubai’s own healthcare city law does not use the term medical tourism Medical Tourism Clusters Verified against primary record What a cluster is A regional concentration of related industries, arising from linkages across industries in a location[1] One statutory healthcare zone Established as a free zone, with the … Read more
Unreviewed Written 2 October 2026| 4 sources| An audited ranking publishes a confidence interval around each position Medical Tourism Rankings Verified against primary record What a published rank is Dependent on modelling choices, and to be read within a confidence interval rather than at face value[1] Audited practice Monte Carlo simulation varying several modelling choices … Read more
Unreviewed Written 2 October 2026| 4 sources| Three origin-side collections examined, each measuring something different Source Markets in Medical Tourism Verified against primary record Leading EU origins, 2020 France 1,646, Ireland 924 and Luxembourg 597 prior authorisation requests[1] A measured prevalence 1.32 per cent of respondents in eleven United States states and territories, 2016[2] How … Read more
Unreviewed Written 2 October 2026| 5 sources| The best national series examined has no procedure breakdown at all Destination Markets in Medical Tourism Verified against primary record A national series Turkey: 1,538,643 health tourism patients in 2023 and 1,398,580 in 2025[1] What it does not contain No breakdown by procedure, and none by country of … Read more
Unreviewed Written 2 October 2026| 5 sources| Where flows are measured, they run short distances between neighbours Medical Tourism Patient Flows Verified against primary record The pattern Cross-border healthcare concerns mostly neighbouring countries[1] Busiest authorised flows, 2022 Slovakia to Czechia, and Luxembourg to Germany[1] Scale About 200,000 patients a year, under 0.05 per cent of … Read more
Unreviewed Written 30 September 2026| 3 sources| The one sector in this set a national health system pays for on prescription Thermal Tourism Verified against primary record France A thermal cure is fixed at 18 days of actual treatment and must be prescribed[1] Reimbursement Medical surveillance at 70 per cent and thermal treatment at 65 … Read more