by Maria K Todd, MHA PhD Executive Director Center for Health Tourism Strategy Are you scratching your head wondering why more people aren’t lining up to buy medical tourism services from you? If what you are doing to connect with buyers isn’t working, it’s time to re-examine and change your approach. If you can identify...
Continue readingHello Activities Guide, Goodbye Visitor’s Guide
by Maria K Todd, MHA PhD Executive Director Center for Health Tourism Strategy “In developing a health and wellness tourism destination, you must develop tools to help your health and wellness tourism visitors to plan their experience in the context of any special needs.” An Unfortunate Case Study Caused by a lack of...
Continue readingUnderstanding the challenges and opportunities that lie within the GCC for healthcare and health tourism
The entire Gulf region is witnessing an exponential population growth. Over 49% of the density, however, consists of expatriates from all over the world, engaged in trades engineering, and service industries. At the same time, longevity contributes to the growth of as people live longer develop many common chronic conditions encountered in more...
Continue reading#AskMariaTodd: How can we make use of podcasts in our medical tourism marketing?
How can we make effective use of podcast content in our medical tourism marketing? 1 The use of podcasting and audio streaming is nothing new, but it is sadly underutilized in health tourism marketing and promotion. Content Strategy First, you must devise a strategy for what content would be of interest...
Continue readingPoint of View: The Intersection of Medical Tourism and the Internet of Things (IoT)
By Maria K Todd, MHA PhD CEO & Founder Mercury Healthcare International, Inc. Estimates about the potential of connected devices by the year 2020 range from 26 billion (Gartner) to 75 billion (Morgan Stanley). The Internet of Things (IoT) will give rise to new and disruptive medical tourism industry transformations and business outcomes....
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Red Teaming Your Medical Tourism Operational Design
Defined loosely in Red Teaming Journal, red teaming is the practice of viewing a problem from an adversary or competitor’s perspective. The goal of most red teams is to enhance decision making, either by specifying the adversary’s preferences and strategies or by simply acting as a devil’s advocate. The entire point of the Red...
Continue readingHow to Use Growth Matrix Analysis in Medical Tourism
Growth matrix analysis in medical tourism is used by strategic management and includes four marketing strategies in order to enable economic growth of medical tourism hospitals and clinics A 2-hour hands-on, interactive workshop available to add to any event or conference as a pre-or post conference offer. This matrix is part of a company’s application of...
Continue readingNine-Field Matrix Analysis in Medical Tourism
Nine-field matrix analysis in Medical Tourism in medical tourism enables the clear weighting distribution of management units and strategy derivatives for future development of medical tourism hospitals and clinics A 2-hour hands-on, interactive workshop available to add to any event or conference as a pre-or post conference offer. This matrix is part of a...
Continue readingBenchmarking & Comparative Analysis in Medical Tourism
Benchmarking & comparative analysis in medical tourism helps clinics and hospitals use the information to find the right approach for market success A 4-hour workshop available to add to any event or conference as a pre-or post conference workshop. Benchmarking is defined as a continuous process of analysis, in which a medical tourism hospital...
Continue readingAgile Marketing for Health and Wellness Tourism
Agile Marketing for Health and Wellness Tourism A 4-hour workshop available to add to any event or conference as a pre-or post conference workshop. Agile marketing is a high-communication, low documentation, rapid iteration process designed to provide more frequent, more relevant and highly measurable marketing programs. This is a necessity in medical and dental...
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