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Costa Rica 'in good health'

Jaimie Kanwar

Costa Rica has been named as one of the top destinations for health tourism...

A growing industry of people are traveling abroad to have cosmetic surgery that is too costly back home. Other countries in the top 5 were Malaysia, Panama, India and Brazil.

These countries are most popular because of their advanced, high quality health services, and low costs. Malaysia and India attract people from all over the world, as do Costa Rica Brazil, and Panama, but the latter three attract the most U.S. citizens, because of the above reasons as well as their Americanised cultures.

Medical tourism is yet another growing string to Costa Rica's economic bow, which already has unique tourist attracting features, like the fact that it boasts five percent of the world's ecology, in only 0.003% of the world's land mass. But other places in Latin America have equally rich and diverse ecological systems; Costa Rica is set apart by its stability and safety, making it ideal for family holidays.

A spokesperson for David Stanley Redfern commented: “For Costa Rica to maintain its reputation as a medical tourism destination, it must make itself attractive to specialist surgeons from more advanced countries. To do this they rely on the ability to provide high quality rented accommodation. This is excellent news for the Costa Rica property market”.