By Lee Armstrong, GPS-Magazine.com
GPS-Magazine promotes your facilities, services, and tourism directly to millions of people and their families who are highly and specifically interested in utilizing your services.  We will feature your advertising, videos, travel packages, and in some cases, highlight your destinations.  Your message will be delivered directly to a specifically defined audience seeking global patient and travel information and corporations that are implementing the medtour benefits for their employees.

This focused demographic readership, amounts to tens of millions of readers.  By our most conservative estimation, the collective number of employers and employees currently insured for medical tourism stand to save $5 Billion in medical expenses within the first several years.

GPS-Magazine is travel and medical patient-oriented and serves as a knowledge-based resource.  The publications deliver key information to people interested in utilizing the many financial and quality healthcare advantages of medical tourism.  A monthly business feature provides valuable information for CFO and HR Directors for reducing their group medical expenses, thus reinforcing the positive attributes of your services.

2 Million readers make up the circulation of the first issue of GPS-Magazine. Translations of GPS multimedia magazine in Spanish, English, and TBA languages (to be announced) will be available as interactive, online global publications.  Links to the multimedia publication are delivered to people insured for medical tourism and everyone expressing interest in medical tourism.

100,000 US businesses with 100+ employees will receive print copies of the magazine in the mail.  Print distribution includes select newsstands in metropolitan markets.  Personalized CD copies of GPS-Magazine may be mailed for marketing purposes or to key executives and staff..

GPS will help medtour candidates discover how fulfilling, exciting and “do-able” international medical travel is, even if they have never traveled nor have a passport.

GPS strives to alleviate patient apprehensions about international travel and medical services and introduce patients to a new realm of affordable global options.  Affordable travel packages to superior medical & dental destinations will be published monthly.

The publications address language concerns, serve as a resource for questions and source for answers about medical and travel concerns, provide resources for patients and their travel companions, and relay the best travel and medical opportunities available in the world.

Global Patient Services features information and personal attention that patients require to reach decisions about international destination for dental or medical care.  GPS-Magazine reports on expediting passports, medical specialties and breakthroughs, certified travel chaperon companions, advice about best seasons for some destinations, currency exchange, translations services, and a forum for readers to report about their medtour experience and provides links to reputable services.

It has been said that General Motors spends more on employee group health benefits than steel and that Starbucks spends more on their group health benefits than coffee beans.  Medical tourism benefits provided by firms such as Companion Global Healthcare, Plan Benefit Services, Inc of Columbia, SC, and other insurance carriers joining the medtour team will be a positive step in solving those financial headaches for mid-size and large group self-funded employers.

GPS will provide the insight and information necessary to help employers, employees, and individuals make educated decisions to opt for the advantages of medical tourism, and successfully utilize and enjoy the international options.

Closing the knowledge gap and eliminating concerns about travel and foreign healthcare quality for patients will enable employers, employees, international medical and dental facilities, travel venders, and destinations to benefit from the financial advantages at a faster rate.