It is only natural that while medical services in Western countries are constantly becoming more expensive, many European tourists are beginning to combine their trips to the East with the possibilities of relatively inexpensive treatment. Today, medical tourism is becoming increasingly popular among residents of the Middle East region.
According to representatives of medical companies from Southeast Asian countries that participated in the Arabian Travel Market-2011 exhibition, the number of their clients arriving for treatment from Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain has increased significantly lately.
At the same time, according to the latest expert estimates voiced by the representative of Euromoney, Nadezhda Popova, “GCC countries, in particular, the UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia, have also recently begun to actively develop their opportunities to attract clients from Europe and the USA to medical tours the Middle East. "
According to Euromoney, in 2010 the potential of medical tourism in the UAE in monetary terms was equal to US $ 5 billion. These figures confirm that the medical tourism market is turning into one of the promising sectors of the economy of the United Arab Emirates.
