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MEDIA RELEASE InterMedika Appointed Strategic Advisor to UEM Sunrise for Estuari Sports Centre Transformation in Iskandar Puteri

Neil van Heerden 20 June 2025

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia & Phuket, Thailand – 6 June 2025 – Phuket-based Intermedika Consulting (Intermedika) has entered into a consulting and advisory agreement with one of Malaysia’s top property developers, UEM Sunrise Berhad (UEM Sunrise), to integrate sports, wellness and other innovative lifestyle components into the latter’s masterplan in Iskandar

A Tough Road Ahead for Thai Hospitals

Ruben Toral 24 August 2021

McKinsey & Company recently published a paper entitled “The hospital Is dead, long live the hospital!” This well crafted piece documents nine major forces reshaping hospitals and healthcare delivery. In a nutshell, their thesis is that hospitals as we know them are dead, and the hospital of tomorrow will require significant re-engineering

InterMedika Expands Team and Services

Ruben Toral 1 June 2021

InterMedika, a company providing corporate advisory services to healthcare and hospitality investors, hospitals, governments and health tourism promotion boards around the world, has expanded its advisory team to include Edgar Toral Hernandez, Gareth Jones and Carl Stanifer. The addition of these specialists expands Intermedika’s depth and breadth of services in

Blending Healthcare Into Hospitality: Opportunities and Challenges

Edgar Toral 17 May 2021

We’ve been talking to a lot of hoteliers lately and without fail every hotel owner or GM says the same thing, “We want to develop a wellness/medical product as part of our guest services portfolio”. To be clear, this is not a new ask. Hotels have been looking to add

The Hospital Website Disconnect

Gareth Jones 7 May 2021

Today, hospitals have a myriad of online channels they can use to market their services, but still no tool is more efficient or cost effective to reach customers (old and new) than their website. Obvious statement? Maybe. Intermedika has worked with hospitals around the world and it never fails to

Will COVID-19 Kill or Cure Medical Tourism?

Ruben Toral 27 March 2021

Medical tourism is stagnating and the go-go years of double digit growth are gone…for now at least. The sector was the darling of hospital and clinics all around the world because it attracted cash paying patients for higher acuity services where margins are fatter. The first and fast movers did

Let retirees rejuvenate Thai tourism

Ruben Toral 23 February 2021

Thailand is in trouble. The economy is shrinking, unemployment is rising and tourism is crumbling. According to data released by Thailand’s Ministry of Tourism and Sports, foreign visitor arrivals are down 83 per cent from 2019. Any hope of a quick rebound evaporated in late 2020 with a fresh outbreak