2024-06-07 13:20:59
Gangnam-gu attracted the best variety of international sufferers ever. Gangnam-gu (District Mayor Seong-myeong Cho), a metropolis the place goals collect and envision the long run, introduced on the sixth that final 12 months’s Gangnam medical tourism mission recorded the best variety of points of interest ever.
The variety of international sufferers who visited Gangnam-gu final 12 months was 185,559, a 209.8% enhance from the earlier 12 months, and much exceeding the goal of 150,000 (as of 2026) pledged for the eighth widespread election. As well as, this determine is 30.6% of Korea’s whole attraction efficiency (605,768 college students) and 39.2% of Seoul Metropolis’s whole attraction efficiency (473,340 college students).
By nation, Japan had 71,425 folks (38.5%), China had 31,336 folks (16.9%), and america had 20,284 folks (12%). Dermatology was the best (48.2%), adopted by cosmetic surgery (22.7%), inner drugs (10.5%), and well being examination (5.2%). The nation with the best enhance in guests was Japan (8,415 → 71,425, 748.8%), adopted by China (254.9%) and america (108.6%). That is believed to be as a result of fast enhance in curiosity in Okay-beauty amongst folks of their 20s and 30s who primarily go to Korea from Japan and China.
In the meantime, the variety of international sufferers visiting Gangnam-gu steadily elevated, reaching 131,808 in 2019, however then plummeted to 23,734 in 2021 attributable to a droop in medical tourism as a result of aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Regardless of this worldwide state of affairs, the district has promoted the Gangnam medical tourism model overseas by way of on-line and offline media and has continued to advertise varied initiatives to strengthen the competitiveness of medical tourism.
We promoted the Gangnam Medical Tourism On-line Expo in 2020 and a reside broadcast session for Russia and CIS in 2021, and in 2023, within the face of the pandemic, we instantly focused the native space, similar to holding a medical tourism briefing session in Gangnam, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and collaborating within the Ho Chi Minh Expo in Vietnam. Particularly, the personalized concierge service for international medical vacationers, together with airport pick-up (sending) {and professional} interpretation, which began final 12 months, obtained nice opinions from customers. Because of this, Gangnam-gu confirmed a rise of greater than 150% in comparison with the earlier 12 months in 2022, and was in a position to obtain its highest ever attraction efficiency final 12 months.
Gangnam-gu Mayor Cho Seong-myeong mentioned, “I’m very blissful to have achieved the best ever document of attracting international sufferers in simply two years of workplace and exceeding the objective of the eighth widespread election,” including, “We is not going to relaxation on our laurels within the second half of the 12 months, and can deal with the traits of every nation, specializing in the Gangnam Medical Tour Middle.” “We are going to develop Gangnam-gu right into a consultant international medical tourism metropolis visited by folks from everywhere in the world by implementing an energetic advertising and marketing technique that takes under consideration the wants of medical and international sufferers,” he mentioned.
Queen reporter Choi Hana photograph Gangnam-gu
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2024-06-07 13:20:59