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The Gulf’s Medical Tourism Race Will Be Won by Marketers, Not Builders

Walk into any healthcare business conference in the GCC region today and you will hear the same sentence: we are aiming to become the region's medical tourism hub. The UAE said it first and deserves credit for proving the category could exist here at all.

The Gulf’s Medical Tourism Race Will Be Won by Marketers, Not Builders

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Walk into any healthcare business conference in the GCC region today and you will hear the same sentence: we are aiming to become the region's medical tourism hub.

The UAE said it first and deserves credit for proving the category could exist here at all.

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Walk into any healthcare business conference in the GCC region today and you will hear the same sentence: we are aiming to become the region's medical tourism hub. The UAE said it first and deserves credit for proving the category could exist here at all. The destination that opens a market is rarely the …

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