Athens :
This autumn, 15 Greek businesses, including leading private hospitals, rehabilitation centers and hotels with spa facilities, will promote their services in a workshop in Moscow to increase their clientele and establish Greece as a medical tourism destination for Russians.
As Greek Travel Pages (GTP) website reports today, this is the second workshop organized to showcase Greece as a medical and health tourism destination to the Russian market. The 2nd Greek Medical & Health Tourism Workshop will take place 30 October 2013 at the Park Hyatt Ararat Hotel in Moscow.
Russian arrivals to Greece this year increased by 30%, exceeding 1.2 million visitors. However, according to the workshop’s organizer, Tourism Today blog, Greece remains an “unknown health travel destination” to the Russians as shown during the first workshop held in May. According to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR), medical tourists from Russia amount to some 300,000, with an annual growth rate of 20%. (ANSAmed).
source: http://www.ansamed.info / ANSAmed / Home> News> AnsaMed> Tourism / by ANSAmed / September 20th, 2013
