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UK’s first dedicated Medical Tourism Travel Trade Training and Booking Platform

The Certified Medical Travel Professional (CMTP) is a training program and certification that provides participants with a comprehensive overview of the medical tourism industry, latest trends, key stakeholders, best practices and business models.

Online Travel Training (OTT) and the Medical Tourism Association (MTA) have signed an agreement for phase two partnership with a goal to educate and engage travel agents in the UK in medical tourism.

The first agreement customised the Certified Medical Tourism Professional (CMTP) certification programme for the UK travel trade launched last month. The CMTP course is the first course offered to over 90,000 UK travel trade professionals through OTT.

The Certified Medical Travel Professional (CMTP) is a training program and certification that provides participants with a comprehensive overview of the medical tourism industry, latest trends, key stakeholders, best practices and business models. Launched in 2012, the CMTP program is available online or as a live workshop and is the premier medical travel certification for professionals in the industry. Managed by Global Healthcare Accreditation, CMTP certifications are renewable each year with certified professionals having access to the online e-learning program for continuing education courses.

Alison Cryer, Managing Director, Representation Plus, and UK Representative of the MTA brought their partners together in the aim of opening up Medical Tourism to the travel industry, ensuring that patients can receive full protection for their travel arrangements from leaving home to their return, and providing them with accredited choices for their treatments. “This will disrupt The Medical Tourism Industry in the initial stages,” says Cryer, “but in the long-term it will ensure patients are protected through existing travel regulations, and travel agents can develop a new article for their businesses.”

MTA President Renee-Marie Stephano says: “For a travel agent to become a medical travel facilitator it is important to understand the patient’s journey; from identifying the need for medical care to recovery and returning home. It is important that the travel agent is aware of the regulations and responsibilities they are taking on and how best to handle them.” 

The Medical Tourism Ecosystem will be offered by PulseProtocol, LLC. Pulse is a multi-sided marketplace that helps providers, vendors, hospitals, and other businesses engage in medical tourism. The platform features many innovative features, such as Integrated CRM & pipeline management, integrated payment solutions with escrow, 24-hour multi-lingual customer service support, and more.

Medical tourism has vast potential but too many industry players are struggling with building their provider networks and not using good technology. By providing an ecosystem for OTT members to access top quality, reliable care, Pulse aims to support the travel trade through risk reduction, secure payments, and access to a network of top healthcare providers,” said Robert Page, Founder of Pulse.

Managing director of OTT, Julia Feuell added: “OTT is proud to be chosen to partner with the Medical Tourism Association to create a new, well trained distribution channel for medical tourism. This is an exciting new business stream for travel agencies to embrace and we’re looking forward to supporting this specialist sector with training, seminars and announcements to our 90,000 UK  members."

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