Here are seven highlights:
1. Medical tourists often seek cosmetic surgery, dentistry, cardiology and orthopedic surgery services.
2. Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and India attract the most medical tourists in Asia, with Thailand attracting the most Western Europeans for cosmetic surgery.
3. India provides the lowest cost and highest quality healthcare of the medical tourism destinations, offering procedures at one-tenth the cost of U.S. prices.
4. While both Singapore and India offer complex procedures, Singapore exhibits a technological advantage and India holds a cost advantage.
5. Thailand has experienced growth in the market, and offers lower medical costs than Singapore. Thailand is improving its modern medicine services as well as alternative medicine and biotechnology.
6. Malaysia is marketing itself as a strong country for medical tourism in hopes of becoming an international destination.
7. While Korea is working to offer its hospital services to medical tourists, it lags behind the other Asian countries.
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