Crossing oceans for healthcare

• Main Authors: Lee, Elizabeth Ying Qi, Chia, Laura Hui Ying, Gill, Xener Kaur
• Other Authors: Jessica Tan Soo Lin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Journalism
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137460
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the last decade, Malaysia’s medical tourism industry has more than doubled in size, recording more than 665,000 international healthcare tourists in 2018, up from just 325,000 in 2011. Healthcare traveller revenue has also increased from about RM300m in 2011 to more than RM900m in 2018. With the...