Here are some reasons why we expect so many participants in Barcelona:
- Spain is the most advanced and visited country in the Mediterranean for medical travel. Now this market can look to expand by capitalising on the trend towards free medical choice across European borders
- US healthcare reform will facilitate treatment abroad for US citizens. In Barcelona we will have as a partner several organisations and networks from the US, engaged in bringing value to medical travellers and taking care of the important legal and logistic issues connected to it. The awareness is growing at different levels in health care industry that Medical Travel is becoming a real option to control the exploding healthcare cost.
- EU regulations are increasingly being adapted to the needs and wishes of patients, and with the EU presidency in Hungary, a country that enjoys a burgeoning medical travel industry, the EU Patient Mobility Directive will be in good hands. .
- China is growing as a potential market and EMTC has partnered with the Chinese Medical Tourism Association . It will be interesting how this (not anymore) “sleeping giant” is going to enter the markets. They are interested in both importing and exporting patients.