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The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is uniting health tourism leaders from around the world this summer with an event celebrating Thailand’s excellence as a medical & wellness destination, and prominent medical tourism portal myMEDholiday.com has signed on as one of the main media partners promoting the event.

Leading medical-tourism portal, myMEDholiday.com, has integrated the popular social sharing platform “Add This” to its website in order to facilitate content sharing through social media.

For anyone new to the concept of health tourism, it encompasses traveling abroad for not only traditional medical procedures like hip replacements and weight-loss surgery, but also health & wellness care – which broadly covers many types of health-enhancing treatments from homeopathy, to Ayurveda and Chinese Traditional Medicine, to rejuvenating massage treatments and aromatherapy – at significantly reduced prices, or with better expertise, than can be attained at home.

In what has become a frequent occurrence of late, myMEDholiday.com has expanded its offerings yet again, this time in its “Medical Providers” directory, a key area of the firm’s enlightening web portal that provides a wealth of important information to the growing number of worldwide medical travelers. An extensive list of top healthcare providers now includes LASIK / Eye Surgery facilities and helps round out their roster of specialist clinics that had already contained records of cosmetic/plastic surgeons, holistic/alternative care centers, dermatologists, fertility clinics, dentists, and rehabilitation centers.

Later this summer, Shanghai will play host to the inaugural International Medical Tourism Conference & Exhibition (IMTCE), the first of its kind to take place in China. It promises to be one of the larger trade shows to-date for this booming industry, and leading medical tourism portal myMEDholiday.com has garnered an invitation to act as one of a short list of media partners.

myMEDholiday.com, a popular medical tourism portal which includes an extensive directory of healthcare providers in five important medical travel destinations in Asia, has added a helpful and informative International Patient Guide to ensure a safe and successful trip for anyone planning a healthcare holiday abroad. This 15-step manual offers tips on cost-savings, how to find the appropriate doctors and facilities, how to plan your itinerary, and a wealth other essential advice.

For anyone looking for information pertaining to medical travel, or for the growing number of patients for whom an overseas trip for treatment is a realistic possibility, myMEDholiday.com is an invaluable resource. The site gives users access to comprehensive profiles of well over 400 healthcare facilities in popular Asian medical travel destinations like Thailand, India, and now, South Korea.

The website - a portal which provides visitors with bundles of information about affordable health care services providers and useful content associated to medical tourism - has ensured that their instructive blog has all the features that any great blog does, and is also conducive to social media interaction.

In addition to a popular Facebook page, a large and growing Circle of friends on Google+, an RSS feed for regular news updates, and an informative Blog contained on their own site, the addition of a Twitter feed expands the company’s reach and its ability to keep would-be medical tourists up-to-date with the latest industry news and trends.

The articles posted in this area of the website are comprised mainly of up-to-date medical tourism reports so would-be medical travelers can stay current on the ins-and-outs of medical travel and find out about all the latest trends in the global healthcare industry.