Singapore, with its well-established reputation for clinical and medical excellence, is poised to tap on this growing demand to entrench itself as a premier regional healthcare hub. Since the 1980's, Singapore's healthcare providers have been seeing an increasing number of international patients. Last year, this number exceeded 400,000.
The leading market research company recently released its comparative report "Opportunities for Thailand's Tourism Industry (2007-2009)" to provide an analysis of tourism opportunities in Thailand. According to the report, the flow of tourists to Thailand will increase by up to 8% already in 2011.