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Slovenia gets yet another ayurveda centre

Posted on May 23, 2014 | Comments Off on Slovenia gets yet another ayurveda centre

In yet another boost to the increasing popularity of the Indian alternative medicinal system, the tiny Central European republic of Slovenia got its fourth ayurveda centre in the picturesque town of Bled.

The inaugural ceremony Tuesday included a Bhartnatyam recital by two Slovenian dancers who performed a Thillana, Pushpanjali and Ganesha Vandana in natural surroundings overlooking Lake Bled. The ceremony was attended by dignitaries of Slovenia, India’s Ambassador to Slovenia, Sarvajit Chakravarti, and a number of other international guests, according to an Indian embassy statement.

Following the recital, those attending the event were given a guided tour of the new ayurveda treatment facility.

Overlooking the beautiful Lake Bled that is surrounded by the snow-clad Alps, including Slovenia’s national peak Triglav, the ayurveda centre is a collaborative enterprise of Ayur Ashram of Dharwad in the south Indian state of Karnataka and the Kompas Hotel in Bled.

India’s Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) has provided information support to the centre.

Treatment will be provided under the supervision of Indian-origin Slovenian Vaidya Samo Safic Gupta, president of the ayurveda section of the Association of Integrative Medicine of Slovenia, which promotes the use of traditional medicine and alternative therapies.

Ayurveda and yoga are highly respected and widely popular in this Balkan nation of two million people. Slovenia already had three ayurveda centres staffed by qualified Indian ayurvedic practitioners and therapists at capital Ljubljana, Portoroz and Lasko.

The University of Primorska at Koper organised a World Congress of Ayurveda in 2009 and is now working on creating a chair of AYUSH with support from the Slovenian government and AYUSH in India.

Many Ayurvedic texts have been translated into Slovenian. Ayurvedic herbal products are quite easily available here.

The launch of an ayurveda centre in Bled, which annually hosts the Bled Strategic Forum and has initiated the Bled Film Festival, is expected to boost awareness of ayurveda and its efficacy more widely across the world, as the little town hosts dignitaries and travellers from over a hundred nations every year.

Indian dignitaries have frequently participated in the annual Bled Strategic Forum, a platform for high-level strategic dialogue among leaders from the private and public sectors on key issues facing Europe and the world in the 21st century.

Former Indian prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi visited Bled several times.

source: http://www.business-standard.com / Business Standard / Home> News-IANS> Health-Medicine / by IANS / Ljubljana – May 07th, 2014

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Hungary showcases Health and MICE facilities

Posted on May 21, 2014 | Comments Off on Hungary showcases Health and MICE facilities

The recently concluded Arabian Travel Market witnessed a showcase from Hungarian Tourism to better educate the Middle East travel trade. A delegation from Hungarian Tourism launched a new marketing initiative to fuel visitor growth from the region.

Budapest in Hungary

Budapest in Hungary

Gergely Horváth, CEO of Hungarian Tourism said: “The Middle East market has been a growing and increasingly important source market of visitors to Hungary over the past couple of years. We see positive signs to suggest that this trend will continue and expect a further increase in visitors from the region.”

Hungarian Tourism will now focus its marketing efforts on highlighting destination and niche markets that target specific consumer segments – health tourism, MICE, honeymoon segments.

For health tourism, the country offers cosmetic procedures and spas along with Hungary’s traditional medicinal water therapies. The MICE facilities can be availed across its 5,000 room inventory of luxury accommodation

source: http://www.traveldailymedia.com / Travel Daily ME / Home> News / May 11th, 2014

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Dubai medical tourism packages with visa, hotel

Posted on May 19, 2014 | Comments Off on Dubai medical tourism packages with visa, hotel

Providers of medical tourism packages will be required to acquire membership of Medical Tourism Club

by Majorie van Leijen

Come September, and people visiting Dubai seeking medical care will be met with more than a treatment on a hospital bed: visa, hotel accommodation as well as recreational activities for families who accompany patients will be included in the medical tourism package.

Hospitals and healthcare facilities that wish to provide services to medical tourists will be required to provide all-inclusive medical tourism packages and acquire membership from the Medical Tourism Club from September 1, 2014, the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) said.

The initiative is aimed to streamline medical tourism for the emirate by including all stakeholders in the process. “All relevant stakeholders including immigration, aviation industry, hospitality sector, and public and private hospitals will work together to ensure medical tourists receive both excellent treatment as well as world-class hospitality that Dubai is synonymous with,” explained Ramadan Ibrahim, Director of Medical Regulation and of the Medical Tourism Programme.

Under the scheme, providers of medical tourism packages will be required to acquire membership of the Medical Tourism Club, a non-profit club subjected to eligibility of the provider.

“For example, they need to provide us details of the specialties they would like to promote, details of the doctors who provide those specialties, the number of procedures they have conducted, etc,” said Ibrahim.

“In addition to medical facilities, we will also evaluate hospitals on the basis of the comfort and ease they provide patients. This includes checking whether they have translators, chauffer services etc., which will all be part of the medical tourism package.

Based on the score, which is to be evaluated by the DHA, providers will receive platinum, gold or silver membership. “The first package will be launched in September this year and will be wellness and preventive services package,” adds Ibrahim.

Priority areas of medical tourism services in the UAE are orthopaedic and sports medicine, plastic surgery, ophthalmology, dental procedures, dermatology and preventive health check-ups.

In a business that globally turns around $30 billion annually and is expected to double by end-2020, Dubai aims to utilise its position as a leading tourism destination and extend it to include an offering of its medical services.

A Dubai Medical tourism website will be launched by the last quarter of 2014 and will include all details and hyperlinks of the approved members.

source: http://www.emirates247.com / Emirates247 / Home> News> Emirates / by Majorie van Leijen / Tuesday – May 13th, 2014

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DHA receives president of medical tourism association

Posted on May 17, 2014 | Comments Off on DHA receives president of medical tourism association

Dubai :

Engineer Essa Al Maidoor, director-general of the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) recently received Renee-Marie Stephano, President of the Medical Tourism Association (MTA) that is a not-for-profit trade association headquartered in the United States of America.

The meeting was held at the DHA headquarters and was attended by Dr Ramadan Ibrahim, director of medical regulation and director of the medical tourism programme, and Linda Abdullah Ruhi, head of healthcare facility regulation unit and project manager of the medical tourism programme.

The two sides discussed cooperation in training courses for medical tourism, cooperation in the field of conferences and participation in the DHA congress that will be held in October to discuss the role of regulation in medical tourism.

The two factions discussed ways to share experiences in the field of medical tourism and participation in global medical tourism conferences.

Al Maidoor provided an overview of the medical tourism strategy of the DHA.

He said that in line with the vision, leadership and encouragement from Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council and as per the  goals of the Dubai Health Sector Strategy 2013-2025, the DHA recently announced Dubai’s medical tourism initiatives and that Dubai is relying on its strengths by  building a health system that supports excellence in health care with a focus on  healthcare professionals,  health investment and excellence in services across a diversified range of  medical specialities.

He said that the strategy has been designed over two phases, the first one has been chalked out until 2016 and the second until 2020 and that the  aim of the strategy is to ensure Dubai features among the top medical tourism destinations around the world.

He concluded that DHA is keen to work with local, regional and international stakeholders to strengthen the medical tourism initiative.
source: http://www.gulftoday.ae / The Gulf Today / Home> Local / by Rayan  Sheety / May 07th, 2014

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“Meditels” Provide High-Quality Korean Medical Care and a Resort-Like Space to Foreign Patients

Posted on May 16, 2014 | Comments Off on “Meditels” Provide High-Quality Korean Medical Care and a Resort-Like Space to Foreign Patients

Seoul ,  South Korea :

WE Hotel is constructed as a “Meditel” in South Korea’s best resort province of Jeju Island.

Over 20 Meditels, which are built for patients to experience both the high-quality medical services of South Korean hospitals and a resort-like space, will be established nationwide by 2020.

Last March, the South Korean government officially allowed the construction and management of Meditels for foreign patients visiting South Korea to enjoy both high-quality medical services and tourism.

Meditel is a compound of “medicine” and “hotel”. It is built to provide Korean medical services and lodging facilities in one building to foreign patients. Currently, five Meditels, where foreign patients are expected to visit, are under construction.

The first Meditel that opened in South Korea is the WE Hotel in Jeju Island, the best tourism site of South Korea.KRW 60 billion was invested and the WE Hotel recently opened with 90 guest rooms. In particular, the hotel provides five-star hotel services and medical services. The Jeju Provincial Government prepared for three years for the construction of the Meditel. WE Hotel is a five-storied Meditel with a land area of 29,980 sq. m and a building area of 4,830 sq. m. Taking advantage of the beautiful natural scenery of Jeju, the Hotel provides diverse programs, such as trekking and hiking to foreign patients.

WE Hotel is drawing much attention among high-income patients of Asia, including China and Japan. Many foreign dignitaries participated at the WE Hotel’s opening ceremony. Its primary goal is to draw over 5,000 patients annually.

In addition, the construction of a Meditel with 700 five-star class guest rooms is expected to be completed in 2017 in Gimpo-si Gyeonggi-do Province in South Korea. The Gimpo Municipal Government is recently building a medical tourism business hotel in the Gochon logistics complex jointly with an investment consulting firm in Hong Kong.

In turn, Daegu-si will open two Meditels with five-star class hotel facilities by May this year. These Meditels will provide five-star class hotel services and medical services of 10 hospitals.

The Busan Metropolitan Government will also create a medical resort town with a Meditel in its Dongbusan tourism complex jointly with the Busan Medical Industry Association by 2017.

“Starting this year, Meditels are expected to be actively constructed to provide both high-quality medical services and tourism services to foreign patients visiting South Korea,” an officer of the Korea Health Industry Development Institute said. “They are expected to provide better services to foreign patients visiting South Korea, whose number is rapidly increasing by the year.”

Inquiries: KHIDI, Global Healthcare Business Department

JAY. Lee / 82-70-8146-8980 / widersceo@gmail.com

Source : KHIDI

source: http://www.news.gnomes.es / Gnomes National News Service / Seoul, South Korea / May 06th, 2014

 

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