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A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed by the Asia-Pacific Society of Travel Medicine (ASTM), Taiwan Land Development Corporation (TLDC) of Taiwan, and three Austrian medical tourism and integrative medicine companies, for the introduction of integrative medicine and mind-body intervention therapy from Austria and the development of medical tourism.
Ying-Hua Hsieh, Chairman of ASTM, and Juergen Knittel, Chairman of Ebner Hohenauer HC Consult (EHC), signed the memorandum in Vienna on the 28th, witnessed by Johannes Lenzhoffer, Foreign Trade Director of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKO) and Guo-Cheng Yang and Jing-Ci Wang, Secretaries of the ROC Representative Office in Austria.
EHC is a professional counseling and technology company in medical and health care. The other two Austrian companies that signed the memorandum are Hudelist, a bone and joint technology company, and Integramed Heilkunde Zentrum, a clinic of integrative medicine.
ASTM and TLDC plan to introduce integrative medicine and body-mind intervention therapy from Austria, together with hundreds of clinics and hospitals in Taiwan, to provide European style, high-tech treatments.
Chairman Hsieh hopes that the future cooperation of Taiwan and Austria in medical tourism can attract international tourists to Taiwan, creating an economic output of hundreds of millions of euros.
The EHC representatives are scheduled to leave for Taipei in late May to discuss details of the cooperation. ASTM and TLDC will invite representatives of Taiwan’s health industry and medical community to participate in collaborative projects. The first phase of cooperation includes the integration of European treatments, the high-tech care model, and bone and joint support systems.
Representative of the Austrian Office Lien-Gene Chen said that the government’s overseas offices actively assisted Taiwan's tourism industry in the development of international markets, hoping that the cooperation of Taiwan and Austria in this field would facilitate the development of Taiwan's medical tourism.
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