Turks & Caicos Local Businesses Partners to Target Health Travel

Turks and Caicos Reservations is partnering with Prime Sports Medicine (PSM) to develop medical tourism in the TCI. The locally based vacation booking service, focused exclusively on the TCI, on Tuesday, announced that it is looking to bring more patients seeking overseas surgery to the country.

According to a statement from the agency, the partnership will make travel planning to the destination a simple and informative process, opening the door to the high quality, affordable treatments and procedures available from PSM, which are often priced at less than a third of the same procedures in the US.

Prime Sports Medicine is a leading sports medicine clinic in the Caribbean. It has been providing sports medicine care since 2012.

They are now offering North American quality knee and shoulder arthroscopy for athletes and active adults from around the world.

Turks and Caicos Reservations, an Island Reservations Ltd. company, is the only locally-based booking service for the Turks and Caicos Islands and offers full service vacation planning for visitors including travel packages at hotels, resorts and villas.

Having booked thousands of vacations to the country over the past four years, Turks and Caicos Reservations is now helping the world-renowned sun, sand and sea destination expand into this new market segment, which the World Travel and Tourism Council estimates has grown to be a $6 trillion business annually.

Founder of Turks and Caicos Reservations, Val Kalliecharan, said: "We’re thrilled to leverage our years of experience booking vacations to the Turks and Caicos Islands for patients looking for high-quality treatments in a tropical paradise.”

He added that the island-based partnership makes planning and having an overseas surgery in Turks and Caicos a very attractive and accessible alternative, particularly to Canadians who sometimes face long wait times for their surgery, as well as patients in the US where procedures can be very expensive.

Dr. Joe LeMoine of Prime Sports Medicine said: "We're pleased to be able to offer patients wanting to come to Turks and Caicos for major and minor arthroscopic surgery of the knee and shoulder to have the ability to engage with local health travel specialists that can give them first-hand information and book accommodations for themselves and their support group, as well as soft-activities they can enjoy while on the island.”