medical tourism
Innovative Hospitality and Lodging Medi Spa Solutions During COVID and Beyond
Fred DeMicco | April 26, 2022
By Fred DeMicco and Adel Eldin Background The ongoing COVID Pandemic has brought challenges and opportunities to the travel and hospitality industries. There is an increased need for providing wellness services along with testing, provide safe quarantine, and starting treatment for low- and medium-risk individuals who will otherwise unnecessarily be directed to the already overwhelmed hospital system with added risk of picking up infections. Many Hotels, Resorts, and Spas have focused their marketing efforts on senior clients. They form a large portion of the hotel business. Thus, to further cater to this group of clients, Hotel ...
Global Innovative Solutions to the Healthcare Crisis and How Medical Tourism Can Positively Impact Lodging Businesses
Dr. Adel Eldin | September 17, 2020
By Adel Eldin, M.D. MBA. Brooksville Cardiology, Tampa, FL and Frederick J. DeMicco, Ph.D. Professor, Northern Arizona University Medical Tourism and Medical Travel can bring patient/guests to the hotels throughout many healthcare destinations around the United States. One model is Florida Medical Tourism (FMT) (https://floridamedicaltourism.com/), a Global Hub for Medical Tourism Services for inbound, outbound, and domestic clients. Florida Medical Tourism is important for the economy of Florida and offers great opportunities. See Figure 1 below. Florida is one of the most visited destination in the World with more than 130 mi...
Franchised On-Site Hotel Medical Clinics: A New Competitive Advantage for Lodging Operations With Hotels Bridging Healthcare (H2H)
Adel Eldin | August 31, 2020
By Adel Eldin, Frederick DeMicco Introduction With an aging society, and travel and tourism likely to increase post covid-19, would a hotel or resort partnering with an onsite medical clinic (franchise) benefit and provide a competitive advantage to the owners? A case for an Innovative onsite hotel clinic as a potential franchise model in medical travel/tourism for lodging operations could be made. There are some lodging and medical clinic models that already exist. One is RosenCare® and another is ProntoCare. Described below, RosenCare® and ProntoCare may provide a template for onsite medical clinics at hotels and resorts and m...
Hotels to Healthcare (H2H) Medical Travel in India: A Cost Comparison of Procedures With the United States
Fred DeMicco | August 6, 2020
By Fred DeMicco and Jackie Guzman Introduction Medical Tourism is traveling to another country to receive medical care or treatment. There are many different reasons why one might do this, such as to save money or to seek a treatment that is not available in one’s home country. Immigrants sometimes return to their country of birth for a medical procedure because they feel more comfortable there or because they have family there that will help them during the recovery process. Medical tourism is a growing industry and in 2017 alone, between 14 and 16 million people traveled outside their home country to receive a medical treatment. I...
HVS Market Pulse: Rochester, MN – Medicine at the Forefront of Development
Justin Westad | March 7, 2019
by Justin Westad The healthcare sector is the cornerstone of the Rochester market, represented largely by entities such as the Mayo Clinic, Saint Mary's Hospital, and Rochester Methodist Hospital, which is visited by over 1.3 million patients per year. After years of expansion and growth, the Downtown Rochester market is expected to receive an even bigger boost with approximately $5.6 billion of public and private investment injected over the next 20 years through the Destination Medical Center Initiative (DMC). The goal of the initiative is to transform the city into a world-renowned destination medical center. Projects will be aim...
RosenCare® Revolutionary Employee Healthcare Approach Could Boost Medical Travel to the USA
the Authors | January 31, 2019
By Frederick J. DeMicco, Ph.D. and Abe Pizam, Ph.D. High medical costs and an ineffective healthcare system in the USA have encouraged outbound medical travel and dissuaded many foreign patients from considering it as a medical travel destination. An innovative, self-insured employee healthcare model developed by Harris Rosen, the founder of Rosen Hotels & Resorts in Florida, has the potential to revolutionize medical care. Professors Frederick J. DeMicco, Ph.D. and Abe Pizam, Ph.D. look at what RosenCare® offers. Harris Rosen, Central Florida's largest independent hotelier, is widely recognized as an entrepreneur and passionate...
Crete’s Nikos Igoumenidis on Emerging Trends and Sustainable Tourism
Phil Butler | May 22, 2018
By Phil Butler Dr. Nikos Igoumenidis is a Heraklion, Crete native elected to the Hellenic Parliament to represent his region, home city, and Crete back in 2015. A cardiologist by profession, he's a former Director of Cardiology at the clinic of the University General Hospital of Heraklion (PAGNI), and currently responsible for tourism on behalf of SYRIZA parliamentary group. We had the privilege recently of discussing with Dr. Igoumenidis the character of Crete hospitality and tourism to come including emerging alternative tourism trends such as; wellness/medical tourism, cultural tourism, and the underdeveloped rural tourism niche....
Bradenton / Sarasota Area Selected to Host International Medical Tourism Conference on 2/23
the Bradenton Area Convention & Visitors Bureau | December 7, 2017
Event to Focus on Emerging Trend: Bringing Best Practices from Hospitality to Healthcare BRADENTON, FLA., December 7, 2017 – The Association of North America Higher Education International (ANAHEI) has selected the Bradenton / Sarasota Area to host its upcoming Global Medical Management Services – The Patient as a Guest (GLOMED 2018) on February 23, 2018. Themed "Bringing Best Practices from Hospitality to Healthcare (H2H) for Maximizing Quality of the Patient/Guest Experience," the international medical tourism conference will take place at the Art Ovation Hotel in Sarasota and is expected to draw hundreds from around the g...
