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"There's a trend globally for outbound tourism from countries like China, which is driving the purchase of luxury goods," Copestake says.
"That is not a negligible amount of money, particularly since there is strong competition from tourism in countries such as Spain, Portugal or Turkey," he says.
It remains to be seen whether these findings are specific to the ecology of Barbados or can be extrapolated to the legal climate of other medical tourism destination countries.
The patterns of health worker migration in the above cases are promoted as reversing or reducing the out-migration of domestic health workers from medical tourism destination countries in the Caribbean.
Take tourism, the country's biggest foreign-currency earner.
Whatever the reason, the massive sargassum flow is becoming a major challenge for tourism-dependent countries.
Buoyed by good weather, good location and lots of tourism, the country's 250,000 or so citizens lead comfortable lives.
In contrast, Rwanda has taken some bold steps to encourage tourism from neighboring countries and enhance trade and economic opportunity.
Alas, they have nothing to say about the effects of so-called medical tourism on the countries most concerned.
Demir predicted a ban in Germany would lead to a rise in "circumcision tourism in neighbouring countries in Europe".
