Medical tourism slow to recover as patients watch their spending

FILE PHOTO: A British patient Bob Martin, 71, checks in at the airport in Budapest, Hungary, February 10, 2023. REUTERS/Marton Monus

Attila Knott has an empty clinic that he had planned to open as a dental hospital in Hungary in March of 2020.

But the foreigners with bad teeth he had expected to treat then were deterred by COVID-19. The high cost of travel and economic uncertainty have emerged as concerns for some potential patients since travel restrictions were lifted, he said.