600, 000 Medical Tourists visit Thailand

Medical Tourism in Thailand: Thailand - world's leading medical tourism destination

Thailand, currently the world's leading medical tourism destination, attracts about 600 000 patients annually. - Sapa-AFP



Of whom some 400,000 visit just one hospital Bumrumgrad in Bangkok.



The challenge of these sorts of statistics is to decide or even divine just how many of these patients have travelled to Thailand specifically for the purpose of medical treatment and how many are simply in country.



Thailand's medical industry welcomes some 20 million visitors per year and a proportion of these will be availing themselves of local hospital services.



So Thailand may be welcoming more foreign patients but it may not be the number 1 medical tourism destination.