Aura Events is proud to announce the 3rd annual World Health Tourism Congress – Spain 2008

 

This premier event offers healthcare providers from around the world the chance to create business opportunities and form partnerships with the largest corporate healthcare buyers in the world.

The WHTC is the first and ONLY event focused on bringing corporate purchasers of healthcare together with world class medical providers
The congress will be focused on the major categories of Health Tourism Industry:

• Medical Treatment
• Sports Medicine
• Wellness Treatment (Spas and Health Resorts)
• Cosmetic Treatment

World Health Tourism Congress will attract the final decision makers of health authorities and key players on the health Tourism Industry.
World Health Tourism Congress offers a unique B2B format adapted to your Prospecting Strategy. The format of the event is much more exclusive than any other health tourism event in the HealthCare Tourism industry.

SOLUTION PROVIDERS

 

Solution Providers can be divided in four main categories: Tourism Boards, Hospitals, Hotel Chains and Spas. We are looking for the best solution providers in the world that can offer world class services to the extensively qualified corporate buyers. In order to limit competition, the number of solution providers attending will be LIMITED.

SOLUTION PROVIDERS PROFILE ATTENDING THE WORLD HEALTH TOURISM CONGRESS:

General Hospitals

Specialist Hospitals and clinics

Dental clinics

Plastic surgery clinics

Sports Medicine specialists –Orthopedic

Hotels – Spas and Health Resorts

Medical Agents services

Airlines- Air Ambulance-

Inbound Tour Operators (Specialized in Health Tourism).

SOLUTION PROVIDERS

 

Corporate Buyers are entities that send people abroad for medical and wellbeing treatment either because of a lack of adequate medical and wellbeing facilities at home or because of steep cost. They are divided into four different categories:

1. Ministries of Health: Ministries of Health from the Arab World are the biggest spender of Medical Travel in the world. Some of them have annual budget in excess of 200 Million US $. Each one of them has a Medial Committee that decides what hospitals and clinics to deal with worldwide. We invite the Head of that committee as the Corporate Buyers. Ministries of health of Africa and various parts of Eastern Europe also have similar programs but at a lesser scale. They are also invited as buyers.

2. Insurance Companies. Insurance companies in the Arab World also tend to send a lot of their clients to be treated abroad. They have a Network Manager who decides where to send the clients.

3. Third Party Medical Agencies are a newly emerging trend of Travel / Medical third parties that specialize in promoting Medical and Well Being Travel. They are becoming very popular in North America and Western Europe for people who are seeking to combine their travel arrangement with medical treatment.

4. Outbound Tour Operators looking for new destinations and new partners that they can promote back home, especially spas and resorts.

For more information about World Health Tourism Congress visit www.healthtourismcongress.com