{"id":211472,"date":"2024-02-20T07:52:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T11:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=211472"},"modified":"2024-02-20T09:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T13:03:36","slug":"medical-tourism-is-big-business-for-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/02\/20\/medical-tourism-is-big-business-for-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical tourism is big business for DR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Turismo-de-Salud-Diario-Libre-1024x678.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211527\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Turismo-de-Salud-Diario-Libre-1024x678.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Turismo-de-Salud-Diario-Libre-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Turismo-de-Salud-Diario-Libre-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Turismo-de-Salud-Diario-Libre.png 1390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>International medical patients spend six to eight times more than traditional tourists. The average patient will spend up to US$7,500 for a stay in the Dominican Republic, according to findings of a recent study that focuses on ophthalmological and cosmetic surgeries and dental services, the most in demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medical tourism is an all-around the year tourism, with peaks from December to May, says the Dominican Health Tourism Association (ADTS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A comparison with the main Latin American destinations in health tourism, included in the second Study and Diagnosis of Health and Wellness Tourism, places the Dominican Republic as the second nation, after Costa Rica, where the average of medical tourism is at US$9,000 on average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/turismo\/2024\/02\/13\/turismo-de-salud-pacientes-extranjeros-gastan-hasta-us9000\/2612664\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/adtusalud.org\/\">ADTS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 February 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International medical patients spend six to eight times more than traditional tourists. The average patient will spend up to US$7,500 for a stay in the Dominican Republic, according to findings of a recent study that focuses on ophthalmological and cosmetic surgeries and dental services, the most in demand. Medical tourism is an all-around the year &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/02\/20\/medical-tourism-is-big-business-for-dr\/\" 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":[331,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211472"}],"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=211472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211529,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211472\/revisions\/211529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}