MEDICO Services International celebrates its first anniverssary in April 2010, but despite the short period since its inception it has covered wide service-provision sectors in promoting Medical-& Healthcare-& Wellness-Tourism.

"The advantage comes from the accumulated expertise of the partners who established MEDICO" says Professor Dr Zadok S. Lempert, the president & CEO of the company, "We know our way through the "corridors" of tourism-development and management, the Thai and international law, state-of-the-art marketing".

Indeed, to date MEDICO Services International has representation contracts with the major Thai international hospitals, integrative health-& wellness institutions, and a careful selection of top-rated Healthcare-& Destination-Spa Resorts all over Thailand.

"The clients who contact us are not regular "beach- or leisure-vacationers", continues Dr. Zadok S. Lempert, "many of the people who request our services are seriously sick and in need of swift careful and knowledge-based medical assistance. We already helped such clients who came to cure chronic-infections caused by diabetes melitus, people with various types of cancer, and some who needed orthopedic treatments to replace knees and hips. Thailand is an outstanding medical-destination to attend to such clients, since treatments can commence immeditaley after the client's arrival, the assigned physicians are specialists in their respective fields, and summing up all costs for treatments and accommodation the people were able to save much money in comparison to Europe and USA".

"The other type of customers who solicit our assistance are people who wish to lose weight, need to get away from high tension and stress, sometimes also clients who wish to change their lifestyle in stopping to smoke or move over to healthy organic eating after a nutritional detox. This means both, preventional medicine paired with complementary medical methods, which selected Spa-Destination Resorts are specialised in. Such places combine luxurious hospitality with attentive integrative medicine. Such Destination-Spa Resorts are nothing for the lazy. Customers need to shift from nervousness to relaxation, from overweight to controlled and healthy nutrition, from stress to controlled fitness and energising programs. And if possible, the customers should continue this lifestyle also after their vacation finished".

A company, such as MEDICO and the other Medical-Travel companies on the market, usually serve as a one-stop-shop for people who seek to have medical-assistance or healthcare-programs, in prviding welcome services at the airport, reliable trasnfers to points of stay, selected accommodation with special package-rates, referral services and appointments with medical specialists, escort and translator services during medical appointments, care and attention for acompanying family members who wish to undertake other activities while their partners receive treatments, and careful scrutiy and audit of invoices presented by medical-services providers once the treatments have been completed.

Most of the medical clients coming to Thailand are currently from Middle-East, Eastern-Europe, West-Asia, Japan and Korea. African customer numbers are rising as well. European vacationers are mostly interested in alternative medicine and complementay healing methods. The duration of stay, depending on the sort of treatments requested, averages 3-4 weeks in general.

As professor for tourism management and travel-industry veteran, Dr. Zadok S. Lempert, wishes to enhance the understanding among the various providers and distributrors, who still pursue different priorities of business approaches. "Healthcare- and Tourism-Industry still need to optimise their cooperation" - he states - "in order to avoid conflicts and complaints which will damage the overall image of the whole destination". He is, thus, acting as "Ambassador at Large" for Medical-Tourism-Destination Thailand promotions for the Tourism Authority of Thailand, TAT. In this function he is assigned to participate in various conferences and academic events to lecture about the situation and trends of Medical/Healthcare/Wellness-Travel in Thailand,

More information can be found at MEDICO Services International website: www.medico-services.com