Official Statement From the Belize Tourism Board Regarding Swine Flu Pandemic
BELIZE CITY, Belize, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- As a result of the recent swine flu outbreak throughout the world, the Central American country of Belize has implemented several vigilant measures in an effort to protect all residents and travelers. While the Ministry of Tourism, Civil Aviation and ...Medical Tourism is Good Therapy for the Hotel Industry
Over the past decade, Asia has been the preferred destination for many people seeking less expensive but high quality medical treatments. The increase is partially due to high medical costs in western countries like the United States and United Kingdom. Specialized treatments, surgeries and thera...Medical Tourism - Choosing a Mexican Cancer Clinic
MIDDLEBURY, Ind., March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Every year, thousands of US citizens travel to Mexico for cancer treatment, because clinics there offer non-toxic therapies and the cost is much less expensive, says TMD Unlimited, a medical tourism corporation. When Tom Teeter was diagnosed with Chronic...Medical Tourism Provider Addresses Childhood Obesity through Cultural Immersion, Education
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- China Connection Global Healthcare (CCGH), a pioneering leader in destination healthcare, announced the Fitness and Culture Experience for Teens, an obesity-intervention plan designed to address the social, environmental and individual determinants o...Americans Will Soon Have Medical Butlers to Assist in Medical Tourism Research
SINGAPORE, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The number of Americans traveling abroad for healthcare is on the rise. Medical tourism will be a major consumer trend as the recession worsens and more Americans are left without health insurance, facing huge medical bills at U.S. hospitals. According to th...Healthbase Collaborates with WellPoint to Bring Affordable Medical Tourism Solutions
BOSTON, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthbase Online Inc., a Boston-based award-winning medical tourism facilitator, has collaborated on a pilot basis with WellPoint, Inc., an Indianapolis-based health benefits company to provide global health care coverage to members of WellPoint's affiliated hea...Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Introduces International Medical Tourism Pilot Program
Global Health Care Partnership with Serigraph Inc. Reduces Costs for Members Undergoing Elective Procedures in India WEST BEND, Wis., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Wisconsin (Anthem) today announced a new international medical tourism pilot product t...Oregon Tourism Commission Unveils New Online Customer Service Training Program
SALEM, Ore., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Oregon Tourism Commission launched its new free online Quality Care Customer Service Training Program (Q Care) this week on http://www.OregonQCare.com . Oregon Q Care is a training program created to support the tourism and hospitality industry throu...Balance between traditional activities, tourism key to sustaining coastal Alaska communities
When Lee Cerveny arrived in coastal southeast Alaska in 1999, she intended to interview local women about their relationship with the natural environment. She soon found, however, that women she met were more interested in talking about tourism and making sense of the changes that were taking plac...Ski tourism stressing capercaillie
Ski tourism is raising stress levels among capercaillie, which could harm the birds fitness and ability to breed successfully, ecologists have found. Writing in the British Ecological Societys Journal of Applied Ecology, researchers warn that forests should be kept free from tourism infrastructure...Observing sustainable tourism in Antarctica
Antarctica is the ultimate destination for anyone interested in natural history but it also challenges those people who visit to think broadly about our responsibilities to all life on Earth. Thats the view of Dr Robert Lambert, a lecturer on Tourism and the Environment at The University of Nottin...Norway, Japan prop up whaling industry with taxpayer money
... as whale meat. Researchers conclude that these costs, combined with declining demand for whale meat and the risk of negative impacts such as trade or tourism boycotts, make commercial whaling unlikely to produce benefits for either country's economies or taxpayers. In Norway, for example, the government...Elephant-size loopholes sustain Thai ivory trade
...live elephants are known to have been illegally imported from Myanmar in recent years, to be sold to elephant trekking companies catering to adventure tourism in Thailand. The capture of wild elephants has been banned in Thailand since the 1970s, but such trade usually goes undetected because domesticated el...NASA study says climate adds fuel to Asian wildfire emissions
...use they release four times more carbon monoxide than forest fires. In 1997, air pollution from the fires cost the region an estimated $4.5 billion in tourism and business. ...UC Davis launches 'One Health' care for wild mountain gorillas and human neighbors
...wild, living in the Virunga Mountains where the borders of Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo intersect. Because of the popularity of tourism treks to see the gorillas, and constant monitoring of 75 percent of the population by rangers and researchers, each gorilla receives on average 2,000 ...Afghanistan declares its first national park
...are major international tourist attractions. Band-e-Amir had been a destination for travelers since the 1950s, with a peak visitation in the 1970s. tourism was almost entirely absent during the war years between 1979-2001. Today, Band-e-Amir is visited every year by thousands of Afghan tourists and relig...Historical photographs expose decline in Florida's reef fish, new Scripps study finds
...gly small individuals in a degraded reef environment indicates a decoupling of the health of the marine environment from the value of the marine-based tourism industry," McClenachan noted in the paper. ...AST Endorses Istanbul Declaration to End Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism
American Society of Transplantation Admonishes Citizens of Rich Nations To End Reliance on Donors in Less Affluent Nations MT. LAUREL, N.J., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Society of Transplantation (AST) endorses The Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant ...Wisconsin Tourism Aided by Internet Technology
Not only does WisconsinGuide.com save time, it has also gotten on board with the real-time economy. Peterson said that the site is a great example of real-time technology. WisconsinGuide.com is helping to bring the real time economy to the traditional Wisconsin tourism industry by allowing business...Singapore Medicine - Singapore Doctors Use Hi-Tech Implant to Add Space to Narrowed Spinal Canals
...ops industry capabilities, the International Enterprise Singapore, which fosters regionalism by Singapore-based health care players, and the Singapore tourism Board, which markets Singapore as a healthcare destination to inbound international patients and develops associated people-oriented services. ( www.s...NeoStem, Inc. to Enter the Regenerative Medicine Market in Asia
... Deloitte 2008 Survey of Health Care Consumers which indicates that Medical tourism is set to explode in growth over the next 3-5 years for people going outsid... States. We believe that we could gain value from this by including Medical tourism in the Company's future business strategy in collaboration with Dr Wang." ...Singapore Medicine - Breakthrough Development of Cell Therapy Treatment for Cancer
...ops industry capabilities, the International Enterprise Singapore, which fosters regionalism by Singapore-based health care players, and the Singapore tourism Board, which markets Singapore as a healthcare destination to inbound international patients and develops associated people-oriented services. ( www.s...