Costa Rica Property: The Medical Tourism Factor

Costa Rica has been named as one of the top destinations for health tourism, a growing industry of people travelling abroad to have cosmetic surgery that is too costly back home. Other countries in the top 5 were Malaysia, Panama, India and Brazil.

These countries are most popular because of their advanced, high quality health services, and low costs.

Costa Rica's medical tourism industry is one part of the economy that has been growing lately, and experts predict this is a market sector that will continue to see growth for the foreseeable future. Around 150,000 foreigners sought care in Costa Rica in 2006, according to the NCPA report published last November In comparison to US health costs, medical tourism patients can save up to 80 percent on health costs in Costa Rica

Medical tourism is yet another growing string to Costa Rica's economic bow, which already has unique tourist attracting features, like the fact that it boasts five percent of the world's ecology, in only 0.003% of the world's land mass. But other places in Latin America have equally rich and diverse ecological systems; Costa Rica is set apart by its stability and safety, making it ideal for holidays.

Costa Ricans readily boast that their country has no need for an army, the country is so peaceful that schoolchildren oversee election parades, and there are more doctors in the country than policemen and women. Perhaps the latter feature played a part in Costa Rica ranking above the U.S. in a recent study into world health services, and also plays a part in Costa Rica's success in the new medical tourism phenomenon.

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