RP emerges as wellness haven

by Babel-Fish | May 30, 2009 at 06:37 pm

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Medical tourism is proving to be a super-bright region in our country’s darkening economic landscape. The country’s chief statistician warns that we are on the brink of a recession.

If we do slip as badly as Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand have, the tourism industry—and our good old OFWs—will help us survive.

And if our country’s tourism industry becomes a savior, it will be thanks in good measure to the medical tourism-wellness haven subsector of the industry.

Our medical tourism subsector performed better in the first quarter of 2009 than in the same period in 2008 despite the global financial crisis, Tourism Undersecretary Cynthia Carrion happily says.

Tourist is building up in the Philippines because its one of the cheapest places to go on holiday too. The best place for medical tourism is China its less expensive for medication and for operations. There is also a problem of being a foriegner in a Filipino Hospital as the prices seem to jump up one third or more in some of these establishments.

But Philippines is a very good place to holiday in I would recommend that too anyone but I have to express the truth. it seems someone is trying to take benefit for the fact that tourism is going up in a world finacial crisis. lol

Its a PR move of course.