1. Medical Tourism in the Time of COVID-19
- Author:
- Binhan Oğuz, Godfrey Gordon, and Henry H. Cruz
- Publication Date:
- 06-2020
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Global Political Trends Center
- Abstract:
- With subsidence of the Covid-19 pandemic to medically acceptable levels, international coordination of health and safety protocols, once agreed and implemented, will be the critical first step to the next phase to the opening of international tourism, more likely well into 2021, and unlikely to be a robust one, if travel is restricted to any agreed ‘quarantine-free corridors. Then there remains the issue of social (physical) distancing and wearing protective masks at airports and onboard planes, and expectation that at destination countries agreed protocols will be respected. One major challenge to medical tourism for the immediate future is travel by the elderly and other vulnerable individuals, for whom travel restrictions may be more stringent.
- Topic:
- International Cooperation, Tourism, COVID-19, and Health Crisis
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus