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2017 Edition of Korea Medical & Wellness Travel Mart Kicks off in Dubai.

This year's version of the 2017 Korea Medical & Health Traveling Mart started at the Intercontinental Dubai Festival City Hotel with a purpose towards reinforcing South Korea's growing online reputation as a highly favored medical location - leveraging its advanced and world class medical solutions to a possibly large target market in the GCC region, particularly the UAE. The 2017 Korea Medical & Wellness Traveling Mart is kept in the visibility and patronage of His Excellency Kang Ho Park, the South Oriental Ambassador to the UAE.

To date, around 26,893 tourists from the GCC visited South Korea in 2016, with 10,690 originating from the UAE-- a huge part of these figures are made up of visitors seeing South Korea for medical functions. The increasing choice to South Korea being favoured as a medical destination could be attributed to key aspects like its application of the world's finest medical modern technologies, the existence of a strong labor force of very expert and qualified physicians, modern and cutting edge medical facilities and equipment and inexpensive medical services.

" We are proud to organize this year's version of the 2017 Korea Medical & Health Travel Mart, which strongly demonstrates the solid ties between South Korea and the UAE and shows the great deal of initiatives that we have done to expand cooperation in the health and medical area," said Ambassador Park. "Over the last five years, the variety of Emirati vacationers seeing South Korea for medical purposes has enhanced by more than ten times, and we are greater than welcome to open our doors for them - providing them with the most effective person care services combined with modern medical developments and very proficient and trained medical professionals. Rest assured that we will remain unfaltering in our efforts to develop more occasions and events for Korean and Emirati people to engage and interact, not only in the medical and health area, however additionally in other diverse areas.

Other key drivers that have actually helped consolidate South Korea as a favored medical location is its calculated place, ease of access and secure atmosphere. The country could quickly be reached from major cities in Asia, The United States and Canada, Europe and the GCC, which enables people to experience a risk-free and comfy journey. The South Korean government likewise offers qualification policies for health centers and clinics that assure the high level and world class top quality of the medical services they provide. In addition to this, the government additionally supplies numerous support group to help visitors coming for clinical functions - including medical visas, accessibility to a clinical translator and planner services, to name a few. GCC nationals are offered visa-free arrival standing for 30 to 90 days.

"South Korea is emerging among the leading players in the global healthcare sector. In accordance with this, we are confident that today's event will certainly help draw in more UAE travelers ahead visit us. The strong ties with the UAE and various other nations in the GCC region have motivated us to implement effective inroads for personalized services catering to Muslim people - which includes clearer standards on clinical treatment, Halal food solutions, religious awareness, apartment or condo type of accommodations, translation solutions and far more," concluded Kyoosang Kang, Regional Director of Korea Tourism Organization.

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