China Medical Tourism Industry Indepth Research and Investment Strategy Report, 2013-2017

This report mainly analyzes the following aspects: definition, policy environment, economic and social environment of China medical tourism industry; development status of international medical tourism industry; analysis on leading medical tourism countries; development status of domestic medical tourism industry; analysis on medical tourism market segmentation; analysis on medical tourism industry in key regions; cases study; investment risks and suggestions of medical tourism industry. Meanwhile, together with the comprehensive and detailed market data which is accumulated for 5 years, Forward helps you to grasp the market and development trends of medical tourism industry, so as to win advantages from competition!

During the “twelfth five years”, China is facing a transforming and upgrading problem to tourism industry. It is an indepth excavating direction for tourism industry to integrate with related industries. The tourism industry has developed from sightseeing towards relax, entertainment and cultural-oriented sport and integrated with relevant industries along with the development. Moreover, the healthy tourism becomes a significant trend along with the social development especially with the factors like the coming aging era in China, occupational disease sub-health which troubles more and more white collars, and the popularized fashion medical projects like cosmetic surgery. As a new healthy tourism, the medical tourism which integrates medical industry and tourism industry follows the trend.

At present, the development of international medical tourism industry is with initial scale. Many countries become major destinations for international medical tourism, for example, Asian countries like Thailand, India, Singapore, Korea, China, Jordan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Dubai and Lebanon; European countries like Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania and Latvia; Latin American countries like Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Costa Rica and South Africa in Africa. As a niche market, the global output value of medical tourism in current years keep growing that it is only 40 billion USD in 2004 while it reaches 85 billion USD in 2010 and is hopefully to break through 100 billion USD in 2012.

As the competition of medical tourism industry is fiercer, the domestic outstanding medical tourism corporations pay more and more attention to the industry market research, especially the in-depth research of treatment technological level and differences of tourist resources. With Forward’s the long-term tracking and collecting market data of medical tourism industry, we roundly and accurately analyze the structure system for you from the view of mastering the whole industry.

This report mainly analyzes the following aspects: definition, policy environment, economic and social environment of China medical tourism industry; development status of international medical tourism industry; analysis on leading medical tourism countries; development status of domestic medical tourism industry; analysis on medical tourism market segmentation; analysis on medical tourism industry in key regions; cases study; investment risks and suggestions of medical tourism industry. Meanwhile, together with the comprehensive and detailed market data which is accumulated for 5 years, Forward helps you to grasp the market and development trends of medical tourism industry, so as to win advantages from competition!

Major characteristics of this report are forward-looking and timeliness. Base on the forward-looking analysis of massive research data, we further analyze the development scale and competitive landscape of medical tourism industry. Along with the industry development route and our practical experience, we analyze and predict the future development prospect of medical tourism industry. This report is of a high value for local Tourism Administration, medical institutes and investment corporations to accurately know the latest industry development trend, and obtain market opportunities and determine an insightful operation strategy and development direction.

Here, we’d like to express our sincere gratitude to National Statistics Bureau of China, International Information Institute, National Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, National Tsing Hua University Library, Institute of Market Economy of the State Council Development Research Center, and Beijing Qinghua Forward Market Research Center, etc. Thank you so much!

Qianzhan Business Information Co., Ltd. Industry Research College
Research Team of Medical Tourism Industry