Media Partnerships
Health Tourism News works with a small number of exhibitions and industry bodies as a media partner. This page lists them, sets out what those arrangements cover, and is equally a list of what is not one.
What an HTN Media Partnership Covers
Our media partnerships include editorial previews, on-site coverage, a post-event deal register, and dedicated distribution to our global health tourism audience. In practice that means our team attends, reports from the floor, and documents the announcements most relevant to the international health tourism community.
A media partnership is a distribution and coverage arrangement. It is not membership, accreditation, sponsorship, or an endorsement in either direction.
An industry source is not a partner, and does not appear on this page. We draw on hospitals, clinics, facilitators and patient-service companies for market data and access, and we cite them where we use them. No source pays for coverage, no source receives coverage in exchange for information, and no source sees or approves copy before publication. Until September 2026 two such companies were listed here and shown in a sitewide footer logo strip as official media partners. Neither was one. Both have been removed, the strip with them, and the correction is logged on our corrections page.
Our Partners
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Saudi ArabiaGlobal Health Exhibition
Official media partnerThe Middle East's largest healthcare event, organised by Tahaluf and held under the patronage of the Saudi Ministry of Health. The 2026 edition runs 26-29 October at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center in Malham.
Editorial Independence
Health Tourism News is owned and funded personally by its Editor-in-Chief. It sells no treatment, takes no clinic commission, and accepts no payment from any clinic, hospital, facilitator or agency it covers. No provider pays for coverage, placement or ranking. Our treatment guides price destinations from providers' own published lists held on an anonymous panel, and name no individual clinic and recommend none.
Prices come from the sellers' own published lists. We read them, record the date, hold them on file and re-verify quarterly. The providers are counted, not named.
Health Tourism News draws on industry sources, including hospitals, clinics, facilitators and patient-service companies, for market data and access. No source pays for coverage, no source receives coverage in exchange for information, and no source sees or approves copy before publication.
The Editor-in-Chief previously built and headed the consulting department at MESC International Patient Service GmbH and co-founded IPS-Germany, the international patient service brand operated by MESC. He holds no current position at either. He is Co-Founder and Vice President of the European Health and Medical Tourism Association and a board advisor to ZagrebMed. Both roles are unpaid. Those roles are stated on his author page and beside any coverage they touch.
The test of any of this is what happens when we are wrong. Every substantive correction we have made is dated and logged at /corrections/, including the one that removed two industry sources from this page.
Partnerships do not buy coverage and do not shape it. We do put factual statements to partners before publication and correct anything shown to be wrong, which is accuracy checking rather than approval. No partner signs off our copy, writes or approves our headlines, or holds a veto over what we report, and a partner disliking a finding is not a reason to change it. Where a story involves an organisation we partner with, we say so in the article.
We cover events and organisations we have no arrangement with, and we decline partnerships that come with conditions attached to editorial content.
Enquiries
If you organise or partner on an industry event relevant to health tourism, medical tourism, wellness travel, or longevity, we are open to discussing a media partnership.