Medical Tourism Malaysia Statistics

Furthermore penang has an international airport iata code pen in bayan lepas with 73 million visitors passing through in 2017.

Local literature in tourism industry. The average spending per visit now rests at 3000 10000 per tourist. Sign up for an imtj country subscription for access or login if youre already a subscriber. Reigning as the destination of the year by the international medical tourism journal for 3 consecutive years we are committed to create and ensure an exceptional healthcare destination experience with limitless possibilities and exceptional quality.

Imtj medical travel awards read more malaysia the preferred world class healthcare travel destination the malaysia healthcare travel council mhtc is an agency under. These have been formulated configured and analysed to provide industry players with concise and useful information such as facts and figures on the performance of malaysian tourism sector. Malaysia is targeting to get at least one million health tourists from indonesia by 2020 according to the malaysia healthcare travel council mhtc.

Top inbound medical tourism states. Cluster of the year award for the third time running. Malaysias medical tourism statistics derive from the reported numbers of all foreign patients treated by malaysia healthcare travel council mhtcendorsed medical facilities.

Medical tourism malaysia has provided award winning healthcare facilities to over 49 million medical travellers from all over the world. In 2017 one million medical tourists visited the country and 600000 were from indonesia. But a new report suggests that people are now going to malaysia or thailand for health services because they have lower costs.

Malaysia tourism statistics in brief ministry of tourism culture of malaysia receives and collates tourism related data from multiple sources. According to the malaysia healthcare travel council mhtc malaysia reportedly received 641000 foreign patients in 2011 728800 in 2012 881000 in 2013 882000 in 2014 859000 in 2015 and 921000 in 2016. While most would think that medical travelers seek cheap and fast medical attention some facts in a february 2018 report by pwc regarding medical tourism indicated otherwise.

Within this section you will find information on medical tourism numbers our estimate of inbound and outbound medical tourists where they can be reliably ascertained and news that provides estimates of medical tourism activity in malaysia. Imtj medical travel awards while mhtc wins health and tourism. Singapore was an important medical tourism center in asia having more than 850000 people traveling there for medical reasons.