Healthcare tourism in Barbados is expected to receive a boost following the announcement of a partnership between Winners Development and American World Clinics (AWC) to jointly develop an international medical Center in the island. The $100 million project will be located on a 21.5-acre site in the northern parish of St Peter

Traveling4Health&Retirement (THR) announces their choice of a dental care sponsor in Costa Rica, a popular Caribbean destination location for overseas retirement and medical travel.

The Medical Tourism Association recently announced the post-conference survey results of the 2011 World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress, held October 25-28 in Chicago. Patrick Goodness, CEO of The Goodness Company: Medical Tourism Marketing, was named one of the top rated speakers at the Chicago conference, along with Bill Rancic, Season 1 Winner of Donald Trump’s, The Apprentice, and John Casey, Director of International Benefits, Google, Inc.

President Obama has announced the first ever national strategy on travel and tourism to boost travel to the United States and make it the number one destination. This could benefit the high-end medical tourism trade.

Doctors Hospital in the Bahamas will in early 2012 begin another medical tourism initiative. The Nassau hospital is launching a project with a consortium of US specialists, a spinal parts manufacturer and Bahamian specialist, Dr Valentine Grimes. Three US surgeons plan to go to the hospital with their own patients to carry out spinal surgery.