Health Tourism Consulting
Health Tourism Consulting
A leader in health tourism & medical travel development around the world for decades, Stackpole & Associates uses science-based, strategy-driven research, consulting, training, planning, and organizational development to provide corporate, governmental, and small business practices with effective pathways to move to the next level rapidly, efficiently, and affordably. Our commitment is to produce the highest possible value for our clients through our combined intelligence, integrity, resources, and quality.
Contact us today and let Stackpole & Associates help take your organization to the next level.
A leader in health tourism & medical travel development around the world for decades, Stackpole & Associates uses science-based, strategy-driven research, consulting, training, planning, and organizational development to provide corporate, governmental, and small business practices with effective pathways to move to the next level rapidly, efficiently, and affordably. Our commitment is to produce the highest possible value for our clients through our combined intelligence, integrity, resources, and quality.
Contact us today and let Stackpole & Associates help take your organization to the next level.
The Marketing Handbook for Health Tourism
Global healthcare markets are in upheaval with the novel coronavirus & COVID-19 pandemic.
The challenges and opportunities for destinations, and providers of wellness, evidence-based therapeutic and healthcare services have never been more complicated!
Established places and businesses are looking for ways to remain competitive, and new entrants to these markets are looking for paths to success. The Marketing Handbook for Health Tourism offers practical, applicable insights for all these audiences.
Services
Services
Market Research
We work closely with clients to design and implement approaches that clients accept and trust, and produce bottom line results.
Strategic Planning
We provide expert guidance in crafting compelling marketing strategies and plans tailored to the unique needs of healthcare, health tourism, and aging services organizations.
Marketing
Stackpole & Associates specializes in industry-specific Direct to Consumer (D2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B) marketing solutions.
Sales
Stackpole & Associates designs, implements and monitors the effectiveness of sales systems built around the applications of key influence factors.
Organizational Development
Stackpole & Associates works with its clients to map out, understand, and effectively manage cultures.
Training
Stackpole & Associates offers a variety of training options that can be to suit your needs.
What Our Clients Say
“The training was excellent! We learned a lot and we are super excited to start using all his recommendations.”
“Irving had to deliver some tough data and did it very effectively. Great language and conversational style.”
“Stackpole Associates truly provided us with a ‘one stop shop’ suite of marketing services and gave us all the value we could have hoped for in a working relationship.”
Resources
Internalizing Resilience: An Action Plan for Hospitals, Providers, and Destination Management Organizations (DMOs)
Cross-border volume and revenue per case are growing in medical travel. Capacity is being added, and international patient departments are busy again in many locations. Yet almost every destination program now depends on conditions over which it has no control: a handful of air corridors, one or two source countries, a small set of referral […]
What ‘Rendez-Vous de Septembre’ Is Telling Us About the Cross-Border Trade in Medical Services
Every September, several thousand insurance and reinsurance executives take over the hotels along the Monte Carlo waterfront for the “Rendez-Vous de Septembre” — the 68th edition ran from 5 to 9 September this year – and it remains the largest single gathering in the sector. Almost nobody in the room describes what they do as […]
The New Gatekeepers of Medical Tourism: What Happens When AI Chatbots Start Routing Patients Abroad
Get ahead of consumer healthcare AI disruprtions in medical travel markets
Decentralization of Trials and the Next Generation of Clinical Research
Irving Stackpole to chair panel discussion at the C3 Davos of Healthcare™ NYC Summit, September 14, 2026 Clinical trials have long been anchored to major academic medical centers, but that model is changing fast. Digital health tools, remote monitoring, AI-driven data platforms, and connected devices are enabling decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) that reach broader, more […]
It’s Easier to Get a Diagnosis Across a Border Than a Body: Irving Stackpole on Digital Health, AI, and the Future of Medical Tourism
Below is a recap of the key ideas from the workshop. When Irving Stackpole, President of Stackpole & Associates, took the virtual stage for this HTDC/MedTourConnect educational workshop, he opened with fair warning: this would be different from the presentations that came before it. What followed was a candid, expert-level walkthrough of how digital technology […]
Fact versus fiction in medical tourism
Irving Stackpole speaks to experts about the myths and realities behind the post-pandemic boom in medical tourism, exposing inflated claims, fuzzy definitions, and the need for data-driven realism in a fragmented global market Medical tourism is again being celebrated post-Covid-19 as a “booming industry”, promoted with breathtaking numbers that promise massive economic benefit. However, behind […]