Israel a top location
Israel is Russian health tourists' favorite destination, Kamenev said, with 50,000 traveling there in 2012 - doubling the amount in 2011 and contributing more than $1 billion to the country's economy.
He outlined three main groups of people who seek medical treatment abroad. The first strand travels from countries with less developed healthcare systems to more developed ones, for example from Russia to Israel or Germany.
The second strand is citizens of countries with good but expensive healthcare going to places with high quality but more budget-friendly options, such as Americans traveling to Asia. The third strand looks for alternative medicine in locations such as Tibet because mainstream treatments have proven insufficient.
Countries that are just emerging onto Russian tourists' radar were also present at the event, hoping to crack the Russian market - such as Spain.
Hungary is already popular for some Western European patients, especially for dentistry, plastic surgery and its world-famous thermal baths and spas, but Angelina Strizhkova, the director of the Prestige Haz hotel and spa in the western city of Heviz, lamented that it has little advertising on the Russian market.
"The doctors [in Heviz] are wonderful, they're all highly skilled professionals and at the same time they charge much less than German or Austrian doctors, but, unfortunately, Hungary lacks advertising and marketing on the Russian market," she said. "I'd like to see that situation change."
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