Welcome to medtour

Dear organizers, participants and guests of the
V Anniversary International exhibition of medical tourism,
SPA&Wellness - Healthcare Travel Expo!
 

On behalf of the Committee on Family Matters, Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, I sincerely congratulate you on the opening of the V International exhibition of medical tourism. Medical tourism shows the strong potential of our country on the world stage and promotes international cooperation and collaboration of experts of this industry.
Ukraine has an advantageous geographical position, so it has unique recreational resources, strong traditions and a great school for health professionals as the part of its potential for development of tourism and resort business. This combination attracts tourists from around the world who visit Ukraine in order to get a wide range of healthcare and related services.
Now our country is interested in development of domestic medical tourism. Therefore, the Committee on Family Matters, Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supports the International exhibition of medical tourism.
The exhibition promotes awareness of visitors and state guests of the high professional level of medical services in Ukraine and abroad, breaks the barriers arising at potential patients who decide to travel to foreign countries or to come to Ukraine.
Highly topical business program of the event allows to find new partners, establish business contacts, to get acquainted with tendencies of medical and health tourism development.
I wish you all a productive work at the exhibition, interesting offers and new possibilities!
 

A.L. Palatnyi,
Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee
on Family Matters, Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism of Ukraine

Dear participants and guests of the International Exhibition, friends!
 

On behalf of the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Ukraine and on my own behalf, let me welcome you on the opening of the V International Exhibition on Medical Tourism, SPA&Wellness – Healthcare Travel Expo!
Bulgaria and Ukraine are closely connected and friendly countries, being interconnected historically and culturally, and have similar customs and traditions, mentality.
Bulgaria is a modern tourist destination that offers many opportunities throughout the year to relax and strengthen your health, which can be combined with interesting cultural and historical familiarization tours around the country. On its small territory Bulgaria offers everything - sun, sea, mountains, mineral resources, nature, the remnants of seven civilizations, ancient sanctuaries, rich culture.
Bulgaria is one of the richest countries in the number and curative mineral springs in Europe and has a great variety of therapeutic thermal mineral water and mud deposits. Tradition in the use of such healing power of the mineral resources in our land dates back to ancient times. It originates from the Thracians who inhabited our lands and considered excellent healers.
One of the hottest springs in Europe such as mineral water geyser Sapareva Banya with a temperature of 101.4 degrees is located there. With about 800 springs, there are all kinds of mineral waters in the country that exist in a nature.
Our country occupies one of the first places in the world in a variety of medical herbs. The mineral waters of Bulgaria have long been known for their healing properties that give health and beauty.  Bulgaria offers a variety of SPA and balneology health resorts, where all guests can take a rest, relax and recover their strength and energy.
I wish all participants and guests to be healthy, have a fruitful cooperation and constructive dialogue.
 

Krasimir Minchev,
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria in Ukraine
 

Dear organizers, participants and colleagues!
 

Let me congratulate you on the opening of the V International Exhibition of Medical Tourism, SPA&Wellness - Healthcare Travel Expo.
Slovenia is located in the heart of Europe, where the Alps meet Adriatic Sea, the Pannonian Plain meets the Karst. Nature has generously gifted our territory with thermal and mineral waters.
Slovenia has 87 natural thermals, which have been helping people to maintain health and well-being for centuries. Among the main tourist attractions, there are 15 major natural resorts that offer guests to enjoy not only the healing waters, but a range of other natural resources.
By developing tourism, Slovenia uses the best endeavours to ensure that guests know about the country as a green, active and healthy tourist destination.
Slovenia also highly appreciates Ukrainian guests. I am convinced that Ukrainian tourists will also feel good in a country which is close in cultural and linguistic terms, which has the great climate, quality service and reasonable prices.
I wish successful event to organizers, constructive work and new contacts to participants.
 

Ms. Natasa Prah,
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia in Ukraine

Dear participants, friends, colleagues and organizers!
 

On behalf of the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Ukraine and on my own behalf I would like to congratulate you on the opening of the V International Exhibition of Medical Tourism, SPA&Wellness - Healthcare Travel Expo.
Slovakia and Ukraine are close not only territorially. Our countries are bound by history, similarity of mentality, affinity of languages, colouring of customs, national traditions.
Slovakia is an exceptional country. You may find it magical and exquisite due to its size and countless natural and cultural wealth as well.
Our country is famous for its mineral springs the number of which amounts to 1300. Health resorts of international importance have emerged on the basic of these springs where locomotor system, digestion, respiratory tract, nervous system, allergenic and other diseases are threatened. Many Slovak health resorts are proud of their history that goes back into far Middle Ages.
Health resorts, SPA&Wellness complexes in Slovakia are an excellent opportunity to set up good physical fit and improve your health.
Come and see by yourself the diversity of Slovakia, get unforgettable impressions from visiting our health resorts and feel hosts' cordiality and hospitality in full.
V International Exhibition of Medical Tourism, SPA&Wellness - Healthcare Travel Expo is a relevant and necessary event that contributes to development of medical tourism between our countries, it's a platform that represents the opportunities to get high-quality medical services in Ukraine and beyond its borders, and medical tourism itself is a lifestyle of modern human being.
Wish you all good health, fruitful cooperation and constructive dialogue.
 

Juraj Siváček,
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Slovak Republic in Ukraine

Dear participants, guests and organizers!
 

Let me, on behalf of the Embassy of the Hungary in Ukraine and me personally, welcome you to the opening of the V International Exhibition of Medical Tourism, SPA&Wellness - Healthcare Travel Expo.
Hungary participates in this professional event almost from the very beginning, involving fundamentally new exhibitors at its national stand.
If several years the treatment and rehabilitation in Hungary were presented mostly by balneological hotels and travel agencies, then this year two operators of medical tourism brought their proposals to Ukraine as well. These companies are: Euromed International and Euromedic Tourism, and among their partners there are famous university clinics of Budapest, Debrecen, Pecha, other well-known hospitals, as well as new medical centers, such as Duna Medical Center.
The demand for quality health services in Ukraine is growing and Hungary is one of the top providers of medical tourism. Ukrainian “health tourists” come to our country for orthopedic and neurosurgical treatment, to give birth, and even for vaccination. The extremely rich deposits of thermal water, numerous baths, climatic and speleotherapy resorts not only provide effective rehabilitation, but also a wonderful vacation and general health improvement.
The therapeutic tourism turned out to be the least vulnerable to the current Ukrainian crisis: while the overall tourist flow from Ukraine has decreased, the Ukrainians’ demand for the spa hotels in Hungary continued to grow in 2015.
We consider the Healthcare Travel Expo an excellent opportunity to present the healthcare and recreational resources of Hungary, created by the highly professional, reliable and creative team of organizers. No doubt that holding this exhibition and Hungary's participation will benefit the best health care of Ukrainians.
Wishing you success in the exhibition and sincere respect.
 

Erno Keskeny,
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Hungary to Ukraine

Dear members, guests and organizers!
 

Let me, on behalf of the Trade Promotion Section of the Italian Embassy in Kyiv (ICE – Italian Trade Commission) and me personally, welcome you to the opening of theV International Exhibition of Medical Tourism, SPA&Wellness - Healthcare Travel Expo.
Italy is an important commercial partner for Ukraine. In 2015 Italy ranked seventh among the countries in terms of the volume of foreign trade in goods with Ukraine and currently holds the 10th place among 123 investor countries.
We are pleased to note that in the Ukrainian medical market Italy is one of the European’s leading suppliers of dental equipment, orthopedic devices and special furniture. But the Italian producers are also able to offer the other equipment and health care goods.
Thе Italian manufacturing sector of the medical devices is characterized by the wide range of products,introduction of numerous scientific and technical innovations.
The Italian pharmaceutical industry is second in Europe for production volume - both in absolute and per capita terms. More than 70% of total production goes for export.
The goods of the pharmaceutical industry is one of the main commodity positions in bilateral trade between our countries.In 2015 Italy exported $48,8 million of pharmaceutical products to Ukraine, which accounted for 6,9 percent of total Italian exports to Ukraine.
I hope that the economic and trade relations between our countries continue to strengthenin all directions of the healthcare sector, including the tourism.
Italy is one of the major destination for medical tourism in world for plastic surgery and hair transplant treatments but also offers a wide range of medical services.
I wish successful event to organizers and constructive work and new contacts to participants.
 

Alessandro Gerbino
Director,
Trade Promotion Section of the Italian Embassy in Kyiv/Ukraine
ICE – Italian Trade Commission
 

Dear exhibitors!
 

On behalf of Korea, our congratulations on the V International exhibition of medical tourism, SPA&Wellness - Healthcare Travel Expo, as the industry is actively developing medical tourism. Revenues from medical tourism in the world market in 2015 are fixed at more than 100 billion dollars and is expected to reach $ 150 billion in 2016.
Ukraine has a great potential of medical tourism through huge forests and wonderful human resources. Recently two Korean oriental doctors independently visited natural forest resorts in the Carpathians and Vinnitsa region. Doctors concluded that the resorts have a competitive advantage to attract Korean medical tourists, and they are going with a travel agency to invite Korean patients to Ukraine.
If information about the exhibition will be spread among Korean oriental physicians, exhibitors and visitors from Korea will be more aware about Ukraine and this will help in development of medical tourism in both countries.
The number of foreign medical tourists in South Korea increased annually and in 2014 amounted to 200 000 tourists, which is an increase of 30% over the previous year. According to the OECD, Korea ranked second in the world in health care facilities and equipment in the fourth and ninth medical services - in medical technology.
The Korean government recognized medical tourism as one of 17 new engines of growth and has pledged to improve the quality of services.
I sincerely hope that the industry of medical tourism in Ukraine and Eastern Europe will be developed with the help of the International Exhibition of Medical Tourism SPA&Wellness - Healthcare Travel Expo.
 

SeounghoYoo,
Commercial Attaché of the Embassy of Korea Republic (KOTRA)
 

Dear participants and guests of the Exhibition!
 

On behalf of the Trade and Investment Promotion Section of the Polish Embassy in Kyiv and on my own behalf, I sincerely congratulate you on the opening of the International Exhibition of Medical Tourism, SPA&Wellness – Healthcare Travel Expo!
Today, we observe the formation and development of a new sphere of tourist services – medical tourism, which involves more and more continents and attracts more and more interested people from year to year.
During a short period of time, Poland has become an important centre of global medical tourism, and as of today, it occupies one of the places of honour among such market leading countries as Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Tourists come to us in order to receive dental services, and to use the services of the Polish plastic surgeons, orthopaedists, cardiac surgeons, specialists in aesthetic medicine and eye surgery, as well as for the purpose of rehabilitation.
The foreign tourists are attracted by the excellent quality of the procedures offered by the Polish clinics. Mostly these services attract the tourists from the East including those from Ukraine and Russia. The professionalism of the Polish doctors is another advantage, which the Polish sector of the medical tourism can be proud of. Implant surgeons, plastic and vascular surgeons, cardiologists, ophthalmologists and other specialists are the professionals of the highest category. More and more frequently, they are graduated from the prestigious western universities, train in the best clinics of the world and use innovative methods of treatment and the advanced medical equipment in their practice.
International Exhibition of Medical Tourism, SPA&Wellness – Healthcare Travel Expo is a great platform for sharing experiences, establishing business contacts and disseminating of information about the possibility of health improvement while travelling. I really hope that the knowledge received and the new business contacts will contribute to the development of international cooperation in the field of medical tourism. I wish success and prosperity to all participants of the Exhibition, and I invite to visit the Polish national stand which presents a number of the leading medical and rehabilitation centres.
 

Bartosz Musiałowicz,
Head of the Trade and Investment Promotion Section of the Polish Embassy in Kyiv

Dear participants and guests of International Exhibition of Medical Tourism!

On behalf of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Ukraine and on my own behalf let me welcome you to the V International Exhibition of medical tourism, SPA&Wellness - Healthcare Travel Expo!
Since the Middle Ages people tried to use the healing power of nature - mineral springs, miraculous therapeutic mud and peat, natural gas and climate. Combination of treatment, relaxation, high level gastronomy, sports and unique cultural events provides a comprehensive impact and leaves unforgettable impression.
There is no doubt that many of you know or visited the Karlovy Vary, which according to the legend was founded by Emperor Charles IV, when he hunted wild animals in forests surrounded by the valley approximately 1350 years ago. Then, having jumped from high cliff, gazelle (or deer) ran away from the emperor. Due to that fact that the animal drunk from
miraculous source which healed it, even after 650 years it treats many visitors of resorts.
At the end of the 18th century Czech resorts became so well-known that prominent personalities - governors and government officials, military leaders and artists, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, Sigmund Freud, Emperor Franz Josef I or Nikolai Gogol began to come here from around the world.
It is worthy of note that health resorts can be found all over the country - in more than 30 locations. Which one do you choose? The oldest resort in Central Europe Teplice or Marianske Lazne, Jáchymov, Teplice Podebrady, Yesenyk? Despite your decision, I can assure you that they always welcome you with warmth and hospitality!

Dmitriy Chernikov
Head of Trade and Economic Section of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Ukraine