{"id":205937,"date":"2023-10-31T07:09:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T11:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=205937"},"modified":"2023-10-31T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T13:20:11","slug":"medical-tourism-conference-set-for-1-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/10\/31\/medical-tourism-conference-set-for-1-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical tourism conference set for 1 November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Logo-ADTS-b.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-205969\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Logo-ADTS-b.png 496w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Logo-ADTS-b-300x166.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic is hosting its Sixth International Health and Wellness Tourism Congress from 1 to 3 November 2023 at the JW Marriott in Santo Domingo. The meeting comes when the Dominican Republic is consolidating as a leading destination for medical tourism in the Caribbean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DR is first in medical tourism in the Caribbean, second in Latin America and 19th in the world. 3% of tourists who come to the country do so for health and well-being reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alejandro Cambiaso, president of the Asociaci\u00f3n Dominicana de Turismo de Salud and conference organizer, explained that In 2022 alone, the country had received more than 250,000 health tourism-seeking travelers, doubling the figures reached in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/videos\/20231027\/pais-recibio-250-mil-pacientes-concepto-turismo-salud-2022_780287.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/sector-salud\/20231025\/3-turistas-viene-pais-motivos-salud-bienestar_778783.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/adtusalud.org\/quienes-somos\/dr-alejandro-cambiaso\/\">Health Tourism Association <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 October 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic is hosting its Sixth International Health and Wellness Tourism Congress from 1 to 3 November 2023 at the JW Marriott in Santo Domingo. The meeting comes when the Dominican Republic is consolidating as a leading destination for medical tourism in the Caribbean. The DR is first in medical tourism in the Caribbean, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/10\/31\/medical-tourism-conference-set-for-1-november\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[318,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205937"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205970,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205937\/revisions\/205970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}