Alternative Minister of Economy and Tourism Elena Kountouras, the Rector of the University of Patras Venetsana Kyriakopoulou, Head of Region of Western Greece Katsifaras Apostolos and Head of the Region of Peloponnese Petros Tatoulis, signed a Programmatic cooperation agreement to support the design and implementation of an institutional and technological framework for the development of tourism products in national level.
The objective will support the promotion of medical tourism through this framework from any business or organizations who wish to offer the product to everyone that will be interested from abroad and Greece.
The institutional framework is designed to be the basis for the processing and issuance of the official legislative framework to govern commercial and economic exploitation of these products.
The technological framework will include a web site to promote their products and applications for the organization and the commercial and financial management.
The project will start first from the prefectures of Achaia and Corinth, in order to expand throughout Greece.It is expected to become an important and representative political tool for the development of medical tourism, as a major activity for the tourism and the national economy.It is expected to become an important and representative tool for the development of medical tourism, as a major activity for the tourism and the national economy.