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International Medical Travel Journal
Jan 29 2015
ARMENIA, HUNGARY: Entrepreneurs promote dental tourism to Armenia
Three young Armenian entrepreneurs are promoting dental tourism to
Armenia, as they see potential.
The three young entrepreneurs Gor Hovakimyan, Artur Gasparyan, and
Ashot Khourdgaryan, are seeking financial backing in Russia to expand
the initiative, as the start up cash they have is very limited.
While Armenia offers quality dental services and is competitive by
international standards, it has got little business, as the country is
an unknown compared to market leader Hungary. Armenia is much cheaper
than Hungary or the Czech Republic, but that can work against the
business as customers worry why the price is so low.
A small handful of businesses in Armenia have websites advertise that
claim they provide dental tourism services. But in practice most are
local clinics with daily walk-in clients, and may not have any
international business at all. One or two clinics do advertise
internationally. Dental Tourism Armenia is a clinic in Yerevan that
has an English website.
The new business is Dental Travel Armenia. It seeks to promote dental
tourism to Armenia by working with dental tourism agencies in Europe
to direct some of their business to Armenia.
Dental Travel Armenia already has a website in English where potential
customers can talk to dentists in Armenia, get information regarding
the types of dental treatment available, and see what various
procedures will cost.
The website allows customers to rate their dentists in terms of
quality of service, allowing new clients to choose a dentist according
to their rating.
Gor Hovakimyan explains, "We don't have a dental clinic to promote. We
collaborate with everyone. Quality is our standard. We work with ten
clinics in Armenia that we researched in detail, interviewing the
dentists."
The target markets are customers in Germany, UK, France, Italy, USA
and Canada. Overseas customers are collected and returned to the
airport and receive a dental cleaning, both for free.
The biggest problem for Armenia is that it is further away than
competitors, with much longer flight times.
Medical tourism news
29 January 2015
http://www.imtj.com/news/?entryid82=455242
From: Baghdasarian
Jan 29 2015
ARMENIA, HUNGARY: Entrepreneurs promote dental tourism to Armenia
Three young Armenian entrepreneurs are promoting dental tourism to
Armenia, as they see potential.
The three young entrepreneurs Gor Hovakimyan, Artur Gasparyan, and
Ashot Khourdgaryan, are seeking financial backing in Russia to expand
the initiative, as the start up cash they have is very limited.
While Armenia offers quality dental services and is competitive by
international standards, it has got little business, as the country is
an unknown compared to market leader Hungary. Armenia is much cheaper
than Hungary or the Czech Republic, but that can work against the
business as customers worry why the price is so low.
A small handful of businesses in Armenia have websites advertise that
claim they provide dental tourism services. But in practice most are
local clinics with daily walk-in clients, and may not have any
international business at all. One or two clinics do advertise
internationally. Dental Tourism Armenia is a clinic in Yerevan that
has an English website.
The new business is Dental Travel Armenia. It seeks to promote dental
tourism to Armenia by working with dental tourism agencies in Europe
to direct some of their business to Armenia.
Dental Travel Armenia already has a website in English where potential
customers can talk to dentists in Armenia, get information regarding
the types of dental treatment available, and see what various
procedures will cost.
The website allows customers to rate their dentists in terms of
quality of service, allowing new clients to choose a dentist according
to their rating.
Gor Hovakimyan explains, "We don't have a dental clinic to promote. We
collaborate with everyone. Quality is our standard. We work with ten
clinics in Armenia that we researched in detail, interviewing the
dentists."
The target markets are customers in Germany, UK, France, Italy, USA
and Canada. Overseas customers are collected and returned to the
airport and receive a dental cleaning, both for free.
The biggest problem for Armenia is that it is further away than
competitors, with much longer flight times.
Medical tourism news
29 January 2015
http://www.imtj.com/news/?entryid82=455242
From: Baghdasarian