Medical tourism

Expomed includes lectures and free health consultation for attendees.

Companies will link with solidarista associations this week in San José.

Companies see opportunities in medical travel.

In increasing number of visitors are coming to Costa Rica for medical procedures and healing, and they're staying for relaxation and the beach.

The annual medical tourism fair will include representatives from 13 countries.

Costa Rica is preparing for the 2012 Medical Travel International Business Summit in April.

The country will host its first Expomed health tourism fair Oct. 7-8.

At Costa Rica's annual medical tourism congress, businesses emphasized a the soaring potential of the country's northwest province. A $125 million CIMA hospital set to open before the end of this year looks to be the cornerstone of Guanacaste's medical tourism future.

The pura vida-living, Imperial beer-drinking, gallo pinto-eating Central American country of Costa Rica continues to grow as a medical tourism destination. With one of the longest...

Quality care, vastly lower prices and renown as a tourism destination continue to draw hordes of medical tourists to Costa Rica each year.