Christian Fadi El-Khouri
Christian Fadi El-Khouri is a health and medical tourism professional with over 12 years of hands-on industry experience and a lifetime of immersion in a field his family has been part of for generations. Spanning international patient services, healthcare consulting, destination development, and digital health, his expertise covers the full value chain of global health travel. Based in Wiesbaden, Germany, he has advised hospitals, government bodies, regional clusters, and startups across Europe, the Middle East, and beyond on strategy, international patient management, compliance, and business development. He built and headed the consulting department at MESC International Patient Service, Germany's first and oldest medical tourism facilitator. Co-Founder and Vice President of the European Health and Medical Tourism Association (EHMTA), he is a published author and sought-after international speaker, regularly invited to share his perspective at industry events spanning from Saudi Arabia to South Korea, bringing a grounded, critical, and forward-looking voice to global conversations about the future of health travel. He holds an MBA in International Healthcare Management from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and an LLB in Business Law. At Health Tourism News, he serves as Editor-in-Chief, applying his cross-border expertise and broad network of industry connections to deliver independent, authoritative coverage of the global health tourism industry.
- Medical tourism
- Health tourism
- International patient services
- Healthcare consulting
- Cross-border healthcare
- Health tourism destination development
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- Weekly Digest Medical Tourism Records Concentrate In Penang And Seoul This is the Health Tourism News roundup for the week of June 29 to July 7 2026. Malaysia and South Korea both reported record medical tourism figures this...
- Weekly Digest Nigeria, Iran And Seoul Redraw Medical Tourism This is the Health Tourism News roundup for the week of 24 to 30 June 2026, and it read less like a sales pitch than a stocktake of leaks. Nigeria wants its...
- Weekly Digest Health Tourism As Badge, Escape Hatch And Disguise This Week In Health Tourism 16.06.26 - 23.06.26. Three governments spent the week calling medical tourism a pillar of national economic strategy, while a...
- Weekly Digest This Week In Health Tourism 08.06.26 - 15.06.26 This is the Health Tourism News roundup for the week of 8 June 2026, and the clearest signal across it is that the contest in medical tourism has moved past...
- Weekly Digest This Week In Health Tourism 31.05.26 - 07.06.26 This is the Health Tourism News roundup for May 31–June 7, 2026. This week's signals highlight a dual trend: destinations are aggressively pursuing growth in...
- Medical Tourism Iran Crisis Cuts Gulf Medical Travel to Asia A conflict in West Asia has closed air corridors and cut Gulf medical tourism to Asia, with India reporting the steepest fall in patient arrivals.
- Longevity Tourism Longevity Travel Market Valued at $18 Billion, $48.2 Billion by 2033 Luxury hotels and clinics are rebuilding around longevity travel, a market Us Weekly reported at $18 billion and projected to reach $48.2 billion by 2033.
- Longevity Tourism Grenada Expands Wellness Tourism With Two Resorts Grenada is expanding its luxury wellness tourism offer after the 2024 openings of Silversands Beach House and Six Senses La Sagesse on the Spice Island.
- Medical Tourism Malaysia Medical Tourism Stays Strong Despite Tax Malaysia's finance minister says the country's medical tourism remains competitive despite a new six per cent sales and service tax on private healthcare.
- Wellness Tourism Thailand Targets Wellness Tourism As Arrivals Fall Thailand has trimmed its 2026 arrivals forecast to around 32 million while betting on luxury wellness travel, with Phuket set to host the Global Wellness Summit.
- Cosmetic Tourism Korea Medical Tourism Surges On K-beauty Demand Medical tourism consumption in Korea rose 5.8 times year on year in the first quarter, driven by K-beauty demand and platforms expanding foreign-patient services.
- Dental Tourism Albania's Dental Tourism Grows 400%, Eyes 100,000 Patients by 2026 Briefglance reports Albania's dental tourism grew 400 per cent since 2020, with more than 80,000 patients in 2024 and a target above 100,000 by 2026.
- Cosmetic Tourism Celebrities Drive Beauty Tourism to Seoul and Dubai Kim Kardashian, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rachel Brosnahan and Eva Longoria are fuelling a wave of celebrity beauty tourism to Seoul, Dubai, Italy and California.
- Wellness Tourism Fiji Airways Launches FlyWell In-Flight Wellness Programme Fiji Airways will roll out FlyWell, an in-flight wellness programme for long-haul flights to the USA, starting with complimentary recovery products for Business Class guests.
- Medical Tourism Thailand and Bahrain Discuss Medical Tourism Cooperation Thailand and Bahrain agreed to deepen cooperation in medical and wellness tourism during high-level talks in Bangkok, reinforcing Thailand's ties to Gulf patient markets.
- Medical Tourism Lagos Mandates Health Insurance to Curb Medical Tourism The Lagos State Government has made health insurance mandatory and set out to reverse outbound medical tourism, targeting a place among Africa's top three healthcare destinations.
- Wellness Tourism Full Moon Tourism and Astrotourism Reshape Luxury Wellness Travel NSSG Club reports luxury hotels and resorts building full moon tourism and astrotourism experiences around the lunar calendar, inside a growing wellness tourism market.
- Wellness Tourism Seoul Casino Operator Signs Medical Tourism Deal South Korea's state-run operator of Seven Luck Casino has signed a memorandum with the Korea Medical Tourism Association to sell medical tourism content to foreign visitors.
- Longevity Tourism Thailand Expands Longevity and Healthspan Tourism Thailand is broadening its medical tourism strategy toward longevity and healthspan travel by 2026, backed by longer medical visas and lower-cost diagnostics for international visitors.
- Medical Tourism NOHIL Cuts Nigeria's Outbound Orthopaedic Medical Tourism Lagos orthopaedic hospital NOHIL has cut Nigeria's outbound medical tourism for orthopaedic and trauma care over its 80-year history, its medical director says.
- Medical Tourism Querétaro Medical Tourism Hub to Open in 2027 A US$145 million medical district in Querétaro, Mexico, is due to open in 2027, aiming to make the city a medical tourism hub for North American patients.
- Medical Tourism Indonesia Medical Tourism Targets Bangladeshi Patients Four Indonesian hospitals joined a health tourism expo in Dhaka, and Siloam Hospitals signed an agreement to draw patients from Bangladesh to Indonesia.
- Medical Tourism Korea Medical Tourism Nears 2 Million Foreign Patients Korea's medical tourism sector is projected to reach 2.01 million foreign patients in 2025, its first year above two million since tracking began in 2009.
- Medical Tourism Malaysia's Medical Tourism Revenue Reopens a Specialist-Drain Debate Malaysia's medical tourism earned RM3.3bn in direct revenue last year, but a socialist party says the growth is draining specialists from public hospitals.