Benefits of the Medical Tourism Friendly Hotel Certificate

What are the benefits of medical tourism?

The benefits of medical tourism include:

• Helps relieve physical and mental fatigue.
• Supports treatment of various conditions.
• Raises the workforce capacity of employees.
• Gives economic value to natural assets with health-related value (mountains, forests, thermal springs) and raises regional income where these assets are located.
• Tourist spending raises income in regions with health-related natural assets.
• Allows health tourism to operate year-round.
• Raises the effectiveness of hospitality services for customer groups such as older tourists, frequent travellers with chronic conditions, medical tourists, and sensitive individuals in the tourism and accommodation sector.
• Strengthens your service-sector competitive profile around approved services for medical tourism and sensitive-customer support.
• Positions your organisation as a competitive hospitality business that serves the pre-care and post-care stages of the medical-tourism journey.

Medical benefits

Whether individuals hold health insurance is the core factor. Other factors in setting the benefits include the severity of the medical condition (mandatory, urgent, or elective) and the quality of the health service delivered. Medical benefits also vary by patient. For example, someone scheduled for an elective, non-urgent operation has different service expectations from someone who needs emergency care. The first patient expects the best possible clinical service; the second may be satisfied with any effective medical intervention.

Economic benefits

When evaluating economic benefits, income level matters. A person in a higher income bracket carries different expectations for comfort and service than someone in a lower income bracket.

Social benefits

Psychological factors in social benefits include waiting time and stress, and, for those treating medical tourism as part of a holiday, the chance to relax. Social factors include fair distribution of the benefits, welfare, and equity.