Call for Australia to be health travel destination

August 21, 2008

The Australian Tourism Export Council has appointed a panel to investigate the benefits and risks of offering international travellers beauty and spa treatments, counselling and some forms of elective surgery.

The council's managing director Matthew Hingerty says other countries are already in the market.

"We believe that we can model the development of health tourism in the same way that we have built education tourism into a $10 billion annual industry for Australia," he said.

Oh yes, we need even more foreigners here.