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How to create a global success story in SALorraine Melvill
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Founder member, Lorraine Melvill catches the lime light.
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PRESS CLIPPINGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
The changing face of medical tourism in Africa
September, 2009
Lorraine Melvill, has been running Surgeon & Safari, a South African medical tourism facilitator for over ten years. She talked to IMTJ about the changing face of African Medical Tourism and the importance of standardising Medical Tourism Associations and facilitators across the world.
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20 March 2009
AT LUNCH WITH THE FM
Beautiful business
Shoks Mzolo with Surgeon & Safari founder Lorraine Melvill at Doppio Zero, Rosebank, Johannesburg
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Nips, Tucks, Drills and Scalpels
By Jolene Raison
Lorraine Melvill : Cutting- Edge Travel
If you’ve never heard the term ”Medical Tourism”, then meet Lorraine Melvill, owner and founder of Surgeon and Safari, the company that ...
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Nip and Tuck and Safari Deal
Forget Africa’s big game or unspoiled scenery. More and more foreign tourists are coming to South Africa for a little nip and tuck at the country’s private hospitals, with a safari on the side.
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Mediese ‘safari’s’ na SA raak gewilder
ALICESTINE OCTOBER
26/10/2008 11:31:23 PM - (SA)
Kaapstad. - Terwyl die internasionale markte steeds steier onder die globale ekonomiese krisis, tel ’n groeiende aan tal buitelanders eerder hul sen te vir ’n mediese “safari” na Suid-Afrika.
Volgens me. Lorraine Melvill, stigter van die onderneming Surgeon Safari’s wat in dié pakkette spesialiseer, is dié bedryf besig om groot munt te slaan uit Suid-Afrika se toerisme-aantreklikhede én ’n private gesondheidsektor van hoë gehalte.
Van die prosedures wat hier gedoen word, sluit onder meer in plastiese chirurgie aan die gesig, borsvergroting, tandheelkundige rekonstruksie, ortopediese rekon struk sie en ook haaroorplantings deur plastiese chirurge in die private gesondheidsektor.
Die ander deel van die pakket is toere na besienswaardighede tydens pasiënte se herstelfase.
Melvill het gister gesê die globale ekonomiese krisis en die vertoning van die rand teenoor oorsese geld-eenhede help ook dié bedryf.
“Ons kry tot 30 aansoeke ’n maand – die meeste hiervan uit Brittanje, die VSA, Australië en Singapoer.”
Volgens haar groei die bedryf sterk in Suid-Afrika, maar is dit mededingend omdat lande soos Indië en Indonesië ook hul ysters, veel goedkoper, in dié vuur gooi.
Melvill meen die bedryf kan selfs meer groei indien die regering ook sý gewig daaragter kan gooi.
South Africa's private hospitals, cosmetic
surgery, safari on side
By Sibongile Khumalo
November 04, 2008 12:00am
FORGET Africa's big game or unspoiled scenery. Foreign tourists are coming to South Africa for a little nip and tuck at the country's private hospitals, with safari on the side...
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Travelling for Treatment
By Shoks Mzolo
8 February, 2008
Californian university professors Claudia Lowe and Barbara Weightman have returned to SA many times since their first visit seven years ago.
The trip back then was organised by Surgeon & Safari for medical purposes. This time the couple...
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If you’re looking for a little reconstruction with your recreation, there are plenty of global hotspots willing to take your foreign funds. Click to read the full article
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Botox in the bush
By Lisa Witepski
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Essentails Magazine SA
December 2005
'A Brand New Smile'
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More Britons opt for surgery and safari in SA
Robin Millard
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LAND OF DREAMS
Foreigners who arrive in droves to make their dreams a reality in South Africa know it, but do you? For those wanting to adopt, have the perfect wedding, have their sight restored, take advantage of some of the best medical care in the world or retire in beauty and peace, our country is increasingly a land of dreams to the entire international community. Perhaps its time we South Africans woke up to what's on our doorstep and started reaching for ours.
By Laura Twiggs.
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UK March 2006
Freelance Journalists – Laure Mannering and Kelly Strange
Gorgeous gran seeks sexy man
I had a Facelift at 82
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Facelift for gran aged 82
By SHARON HENDRY
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December 11, 2005
You'll Probably Like the Food Served in these Recovery Rooms
By: Hillary Howards
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Sunday True Life
"Going on Safari took years off me"
Colleen Hiltbrunner went on the trip of a lifetime and came back a completely new Woman
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Phillip Smith
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Scalpel Safari
A growing number of Canadians are going abroad for an array of plastic surgery treatments, from breast implants, tummy tucks and tangos to laser eye surgery and face lifts
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Going To Extremes
Aug. 5, 2004
48 Hours takes a look at how more and more people are going to extremes to physically improve their appearance and achieve an edge in life.
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CHOP OF THE BUSHVELD –
The Story of a scalpel safari
“WE WENT ON A DREAM TRIP AND CAME BACK WITH NEW BODIES!”
When Dawn Byrne told her mother that she was going to mark her birthday with a once- in-a-life-time holiday and a new body, she expected a shocked reaction. Instead, her mum, Azane French, asked if she could come along too…
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“Why plastic surgery? Why did you think that you needed to have plastic surgery?”
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Diversions 1/19/04
Vacation makeovers
By Michelle Andrews
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News
SCALPEL SAFARI
Nov 9 2003
Scots go to South Africa for cheap op and holiday deals but medical experts warn they are risking their lives
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BIG CHANGES MEET BIG GAME WHEN YOU SIGN UP FOR WORLD-CLASS COSMETIC SURGERY IN JOHANNESBURG
October 2003
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Seek out beauty, take in the beasts
By Nicol Degli Innocenti
Aug 01, 2003
If you have a friend who comes back from a holiday in South Africa looking great, be suspicious.
That smooth complexion and radiant smile might well be due to the benefits of a few weeks' rest in a country blessed with a wealth of unspoilt natural beauty.
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£1,800 for a bum job
By Diana Appleyard, Evening Standard
4 March 2003
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The Orthodontal Tourist
Dentists in far-flung destinations are giving British holidaymakers something to smile about,says Ellen Himelfarb
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It’s all in the attitude
January 2003
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The Guardian
Scalpel Safaris
Rory Carroll
Tuesday December 17, 2002
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Sun 'n' surgery
New - Meet the travelers on a package holiday with a difference
10TH DEC 2002
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Travel Feature
Sun, Fun & Plastic Surgery?
Christina Valhouli
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Medical tourists are
falling in love with Jo'burg
July 26, 2002
By Philippa Garson
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Scalpel Safaris
First class cosmetic surgery at Third World prices?
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A SNIP AT THE PRICE
Medical tourism has made SA a hot destination for face and boob lifts
By Peter Wilhelm
September, 2002
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Travel: A surgical break? |
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13 August 2002
Beauty and the bush
Tourists enjoy safari with surgery, but some experts worry
-- CNN's Becky Anderson and Katrine Lundgreen contributed to this report.
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SCALPEL SAFARIS
Restore and rejuvenate
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Surgery and safari vacations a hot trend
An eyeful and a tummy tuck
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August 2002
SHOCK REPORT
THE PACKAGE HOLIDAYS WHERE YOU GET A FREE BOOB JOB
MONDAY, SAFARI, TUESDAY, BOOB JOB
Written by: Jenny Wood
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Why the rich and famous are flocking to SA for their nips and tucks
By Lynne Gidish
June 2002
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African safaris never looked better: You can get a tummy tuck on tour
By Jon Jeter
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First Liposuction, Then Lions
Low-Cost Plastic Surgery Draws Tourists to S. Africa
By Jon Jeter
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, June 8, 2002; Page A01
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Cut and come again
Fancy a change this year? South Africa is the destination for elephants, hippos - and rhinoplasty, says Yvonne Yao
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First Quarter, 2002
"Nose jobs, boob enhancements, tummy-tucks and more - they're stacking up as South Africa's biggest medical bargain bash ever."
By Yom Nevin
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SCALPEL SAFARI
Meet the entrepeneur who put South Africa on the nip 'n tuck world map, offering cosmetic surgery and the chance to relax in a top hotel afterwards
By Michelle Higgins
17TH APRIL 2002
Some agents spotted opportunities in niche markets ahead of the current industry shakeout. For instance, Lorraine Melvill's Surgeon & Safari, of Johannesburg, was born three years ago after a relative got a facelift in South Africa at a price well below U.S. fees. Ms. Melvill says she does a brisk business arranging trips for tourists who want affordable South African cosmetic surgery, either in Cape Town or Johannesburg, with a safari vacation rolled in. Clients usually do the safari first, then go under the knife; they spend the rest of the trip recuperating in a five-star hotel tended by a personal assistant.
Surgeons and safaris: a South African success
Andrew Miller
Sun, sea - and surgery
Cape Town for face-lifts, Brazil for firmer bottoms . . . On holiday we're now checking into a clinic as well as a hotel. It's cheaper than at home, but is it safe?
Sophie Campbell reports
9/3/2002
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Going on a holiday for sun, safari and surgery=20
Tourists to South Africa come home with more than a tan after a "scalpel safari". MARIANNE HERON reports.
A new breed of tourist to South Africa is returning home with more than a tan to account for their glowing good looks. The secret lies not only in the holiday of a lifetime in game parks or the Cape winelands but the chance to transform face or figure at the same time.
By Joanna Ross in Cape Tow
Lorraine Melvill is Managing Director of Surgeon and Safari, which provides personalised programmes of cosmetic surgery.
She has about 20 clients a month, largely from the UK, who come and stay in a top Cape Town hotel, have their chosen operation, recuperate by the pool and then go off on a safari.
She told BBC News Online: "Many of our face lift ladies feel quite shy of the bruising at first, but once they realise they don't know anyone here they go off in sunglasses and a hat and have a wonderful time."
Travel Feature
South Africa's Better Images
Christina Valhouli
Promotions such as "Surgery and Safari" packages are increasingly popular. These lure Americans and Europeans with puffy eyes or sagging jowls to come for a facelift and then recuperate at one of the country's top game lodges at a fraction of what the surgery would cost in the States: $19,000 for a full-body liposuction in the U.S., compared with $8,500 for the surgery and a stay in a game lodge.
Cutting a Deal on Plastic Surgery in South Africa
By Samson Mulugeta
12 February, 2002
Big Five and a nip 'n tuck lure overseas adventures
By Samson Mulugeta
14 February, 2002
Adventurers spot rhinoplasty on scalpel safaris
South Africa's low-cost plastic surgery is attracting tourists seeking more than wild animals, writes Herald Correspondent Ed O'Loughlin in Johannesburg.
August 2001
Sun, Sand & Boob Jobs...
By: Viv Groskop
8th February, 2002
Mom, I wanted to be a pretty boy
It's official - men are just as vein as woman
By Handrie Basson
4 August 2001
Ed O'Loughlin in Johannesburg
Internationally, doctors have long noticed a rise in the number of people shopping abroad for cosmetic surgery. South Africa is doing particularly well on this international market because it competes strongly on quality and price.
Costs vary according to the type of surgery requested, but Lorraine Melvill says a typical facelift costs between 5000 ($A13,700) and 10,000 in London, but only 3000 in Cape Town or Johannesburg.
She says the holiday itself is a major attraction to many who come. Despite its large variety of dangerous animals, the African bush is a remarkably peaceful, relaxing place.
"Most of my customers end up with a real love of Africa and the bush," she says. "The visit to the bush is a healing element in itself."
SCALPEL SAFARI
Come to sunny South Africa, have a face lift, see a lion.
By: Julienne du Toit and photographs by Chris Marais
29 July 2001
Tourists offered plastic surgery and safari package
Plastic surgery... on safari
by Decca Aitkenhead
When Shonali Rodrigues returns from her trip to South Africa she will
have more than a suntan to show for her travels. The beautiful 27-year-old
is bringing home a souvenir she has wanted since she turned 13.
New look tourism
South African tourism has long relied heavily on the famous big five - lion, leopard, rhino, elephant and buffalo. Nowadays, there is lipo, nose-job, face-lift, breast implant and tummy tuck as well.
- July 2001
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March 2001
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Esther Pan Now the travel industry has hit upon a novel approach to capitalize on the trend: surgery-and-safari packages. Increasingly agencies are offering face-lifts and tummy tucks as part of vacation packages that include safari trips, sightseeing and shopping. Photography by Tim Zielenbach |
 Foreigners are cashing in on our favourable exchange rate and our world-class expertise in cosmetic and ophthalmic surgery.Lifestyle Editor: Marika Sboros |
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" Worth every dollar" …. American
Carmen Gutsche had both cosmetic and eye surgery performed during
her 12 day 'Surgeon & Safari' to South Africa. South Africa is a popular destination for foreigners wanting to have cosmetic surgery. The exchange rate has fuelled the trend, as has the reputation of South African surgeons. The Internet is speeding up the process. Health Matters - Verve Surgeon & Safari founder and director, Lorraine Melvill,
chose the five star Westcliff Hotel because of its elegant location,
its proximity to local surgeons and clinics and its discreet
layout. " I never felt alone, " she added. " I like
the extensive services offered by Surgeon & Safari, including
companionship..." Lifestyle Editor: Marika Sboros |
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