Thailand Health Tourism
Thailand Medical tourism or Health tourism According to approval of the strategic plan to develop Thailand as a "Medical Hub of ...
Thailand Medical tourism or Health tourism
According
to approval of the strategic plan to develop Thailand as a "Medical Hub of
Asia", the plan aims to promote related sectors consist of medical care
services, health promotion tourism, and Thai herbal & health products. The
core business in the medical care services is the private hospitals and the
number is now up to 256 private hospitals all over the country. In addition,
there is more than a hundred of private hospitals be able to accommodate the
foreign customers.
Since
2002 the number of foreign customers in Thailand is high and has risen every
year. There were 1.42 million foreign customers using medical care services in
Thailand and created revenue up to 37,300 million Baht particularly in 2007.
The
medical care services distribute revenue to other linkage industries, for
example, pharmaceutical, medical equipment, tourism, hotels, restaurants, etc.; consequently,
the growth bring about job creation and economic expansion overall. Accordingly,
the importance of those businesses to tourism industry caused Tourism Authority
of Thailand to study "the Structure of Business Investment in the Medical
Tourism Industry" related to the major industry: private
hospitals and its linkage industries in order to obtain useful data to further
develop strategies and policies to promote and bolster the medical tourism
industry.
******************************
You may more follow up:
- Thailand health tourism >>
- Thailand medical tourism investments >>
- Thailand medical care services Investment >>
