Medical tourism: A billion-ringgit industry for Penang

By Doris Liew, Lim Chee Han

October 2015 PENANG ECONOMIC INDICATOR
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Regional healthcare holds great potential, and Penang is well located to continue benefiting from it.Medical tourism, or health tourism, is defined as the travel of people to a foreign country for medical treatment. In an estimation by Nikkei Asia, the worldwide medical tourism market will reach US$55bil, (RM206bil) in 2015, and will continue to enjoy an annual growth of 20%1.Interestingly, Malaysia recognised very early that medical tourism is a very promising and lucrative part of the overall tourism industry. This...

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Doris Liew

is currently reading Economics at Nanyang Technological University. She labels herself as a Penang girl and dreams of returning to Penang as an economist one day.

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Lim Chee Han

received his PhD in Infection Biology from Hannover Medical School, Germany. He is currently a senior analyst in the economics section at Penang Institute.

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