MEDICAL
tourism is likely to take a backseat to health and wellness programs because
the Aquino administration intends to focus on those booming tourism sectors, an
official said Sunday.
Tourism Undersecretary Daniel Corpuz said most
of the Philippines’ major hospitals were internationally accredited, but only a
few foreigners were going here for treatment.
“So we wound rather concentrate on
non-invasive procedures or the health and wellness [programs] than procedural
operations,” Corpuz told reporters at the sidelines of the National Tourism
Statistics conference 2012 in Manila.
He made the statement even as Tourism
Secretary Ramon Jimenez said his department would be pushing the municipality
of Oslob in Cebu as a tourist destination because of its famous whale sharks.
Tourists visiting the area and Donsol in Sorsogon could swim with the giant but
docile creatures.
Corpuz described medical tourism was a
complicated market segment, and therefore hard to push.
The Tourism Department launched its medical
tourism program in 2007 to boost the country’s tourism industry. It pushed
aesthetic surgery, complex orthopedic procedures and cancer and cardiovascular
care, among other things.
The department said the country’s beaches and
resorts, world-class facilities and friendly people would entice foreigners to
come here for treatment.
Macon Ramos-Araneta
The Manila Standard Today
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