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ment and regulatory bodies Learn more and get in touch:
are encouraged to offer higher Ms Seow Ai Na
incentives to medical service seowan@utar.edu.my
providers to allow them to
continue to provide higher

standards of services at the Related News:
lowest costs. For instance,
offering tax incentives or sub- Most Downloaded
sidies to healthcare centres Paper Award by
that host medical tourism for Wiley IJTR
any R&D developments or
improvements carried out,
upgrading and catering The award was a recognition FBF researchers
high-end IT infrastructures for the team, who had worked awarded Best
and facilities to facilitate the hard despite facing challenges Nominee Paper
implementation of e-health caused by the pandemic. “As

technology and others. Travel an academician, I am glad to
agencies are also encouraged be able to share the area of my
to come out with more holistic PhD study and I am thankful
packages that may include for the encouragement given
retreats, relaxation, spa, by my co-researchers,”
nature visits and packages enthused Seow. She also
into their promotional materi- believed one of the factors
als and travel packages target- that contributed to the award
ed to medical tourists. was the paper demonstrated

awareness of the latest
The research was also recently research trend in a specific
awarded as one of “ICCB field, for instance, medical
2021 Best Papers” in the 4th tourism.
International Conference on
Communication and Business Seow and her team had also
(ICCB) 2021, organised by received “Best Nominee
LPSR Communication and Paper” award and "Most
Business Institute, Indonesia, Downloaded Paper Award’ by
from 9 to 10 March 2021, via Wiley IJTR that gained many
ZOOM. citations.