Tag Archive | "tourism"

Hong Kong Maternity Tourism

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

I just learned recently that in mainland China there’s a whole business centered on getting pregnant women into Hong Kong to give birth so that the babies get extra Hong Kong citizenship privileges. This trend has been dubbed “maternity tourism.” Surreal. Of course, there’s also a backlash .

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Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare – Where Are You Going?

Saturday, September 12, 2009

The American Medical Association (AMA) defines medical tourism as “the organized travel outside of one’s health care jurisdiction, usually one’s country, to enhance or restore health through medical intervention.” A less technical definition comes from Harvard Business School, which defines medical tourism as the act of “traveling far and wide for health care that is often better and certainly cheaper than at home.” The practice is also known as health tourism, medtrotting, or cross-border healt

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Dirty Perverts Travel Overseas To Molest Children

Monday, August 31, 2009

Wait a minute, thats the ayatollah of Iran. must have mistaken him for a pedophile..on umm accident Give these these sick fuckers the chair LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 — Three Americans accused of traveling to Cambodia to have sex with children are expected to be charged in federal court here, officials said Monday, marking the first prosecutions under a new international initiative intended to combat child sex tourism.

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Phuket’s Sex Tourism, Wife Seeking, Thai/tourist Marriages and a husband’s voice?

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Joylynn Chong’s Collection Another handling of sex tourism, this time from a travel-promotion site that celebrates ‘mixed marriages’ and multiculturalism in Phuket, Thailand. Most of what we get to read on the subject are condemnations of the men without any attempt to understand the different stories and social contexts involved, so this typology of western men who marry Thai women is interesting, if biased. This is a man’s account; I’ve highlighted some suggestive bits.

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Medical Tourism Guide

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Today, cheap yet world-class surgeries are just a flight away. But the deluge of information available out there can overwhelm anybody. So, here is a quick guide to medical tourism to answer most of your questions about the phenomenon.

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Medical Tourism Guide

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Today, cheap yet world-class surgeries are just a flight away. But the deluge of information available out there can overwhelm anybody. So, here is a quick guide to medical tourism to answer most of your questions about the phenomenon.

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