The world’s first medical tourism portal has been launched in Dubai with aim of increasing the number of international medical tourists to 500,000 by 2020.
Sheikh Hamdan, Dubai Crown Prince launched ‘Dubai Health Experience’ (DXH), the online portal that allows international medical tourists to book medical procedures via a website (www.dxh.ae), and avail of a discounted travel rates.
Dubai attracted 630,833 international and domestic medical tourists in 2015, generating over $400 million (AED 1.5 Billion) in revenues, with 296,491 (47%) of the those tourists coming from international countries.
Driven by the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), the website will offer medical packages for procedures like wellness, cosmetic and dental services, ophthalmology, orthopaedics and physiotherapy.
