Medical Tourism Network Thailand, Study Report

on approval of the strategic plan to create Thailand as a "Medical Hub of Asia", the program aims to promote associated sectors consist of medical care services, well being promotion tourism, and Thai herbal & well being merchandise. The core home business in the is the private hospitals and the quantity is now up to 256 private hospitals all over the country. In addition, there is significantly more than a hundred of private hospitals be able to accommodate the foreign customers. Since 2002 the number of foreign buyers in Thailand is high and has risen every single year. There were 1.42 million foreign consumers using medical care services in Thailand and designed income up to 37,300 million Baht particularly in 2007. The medical care services distribute income to other linkage industries, for example, pharmaceutical, medical equipment, , hotels, restaurants, etc. consequently, the growth bring about job creation and economic expansion overall. Accordingly, the significance of those enterprises to tourism market brought on Tourism Authority of Thailand to study "the Structure of Business Investment in the Medical Tourism Business" associated to the key business : private hospitals and its linkage industries in order to obtain valuable data to additional develop strategies and policies to promote and bolster the medical tourism business. Purposes of the Study

1. Improve the competitiveness of the entrepreneurs and investors of both substantial-sized enterprises and tiny and medium enterprises (SMEs).
   
2. Support medical tourism-linkage industries.
   
3. Promote investment in the tourism business.
   
4. Cut down investment complications and obstacles in dealing with the government sector.

Scope of the Study