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How To Start A Medical Tourism Business

YoungUpstarts

Another important function of the medical tourism facilitator, besides functioning as a liaison between the patient and medical personnel, is to find an affordable package for the customer that includes costs related to travel expenses, medical bills, lodging costs, and so on. Costa Rica: Cosmetic surgery. Local Market.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

I remember last year settling into the booth of a café deep in the rainforest in Costa Rica and looking up to see a placard on the table begging for a positive TripAdvisor review. After a few weeks of watching no click throughs, Kaufer executed his second pivot: a cost per click model (now known as CPC).