Italy To Focus More On Medical Tourism | tourism-review.com
After food, culture, fashion and design, health is another candidate to become one of the distinctive features of Made in Italy. The goal is to make Italy a top destination of medical tourism.
Medical tourism is a complex social and economic phenomenon that has an estimated global value of over 100 billion dollars per year. About 10 million patients travel from their homeland to seek treatment abroad, or they travel within their country.
A survey by the European Commission for Transport and Tourism focused on medical tourism in EU. Within the 28 states of the Union, 56 million domestic arrivals and just over 5 million internationals were registered.
