Medical tourism is ailing as first COVID, then economic and geopolitical snags have slowed the brisk business in going abroad for less costly medical specialties. As Reuters reported Monday (Feb. 27), “For years, traveling abroad to clinics in countries like Hungary and Turkey has been...
While healthcare availability is a topic of great debate in the United States, the quality of healthcare on offer is generally not. So when Chinese citizen Guo Shushi’s stomach cancer was incurable in China and quickly killing him — Guo, with the help of a...
Visa, in partnership with Oxford Economics, recently released a study exploring trends that are accelerating and reshaping the growth of the worldwide travel and tourism industry. Visa surveyed 50 of the largest economies in the world, collecting data from 750 major cities to analyze how the traveling...
July 10, 2024
Mastercard and the Medical Tourism Association (MTA) have teamed up to modernize the medical tourism experience for patients and providers around the world. The MTA will launch a one-stop platform called Better by MTA that will not only help arrange medical treatments but also use Mastercard’s commercial virtual card technology to facilitate fast and secure cross-border payments, the […]
February 27, 2023
Medical tourism is ailing as first COVID, then economic and geopolitical snags have slowed the brisk business in going abroad for less costly medical specialties. As Reuters reported Monday (Feb....
May 30, 2017
While healthcare availability is a topic of great debate in the United States, the quality of healthcare on offer is generally not. So when Chinese citizen Guo Shushi’s stomach cancer...
December 20, 2016
Visa, in partnership with Oxford Economics, recently released a study exploring trends that are accelerating and reshaping the growth of the worldwide travel and tourism industry. Visa surveyed 50 of the largest...
