MT is a Startup that is sectioned into 4 phases. The first phase being where Administrative Personnel, Practitioners, Retirement, Travel and Hospitality individuals and companies enrol at a cost of $35 US with the idea of supporting an organization with the lofty goal of not only becoming global, but of making the world a better place to live. An Employee Owned Cooperative that distributes profits back to its Members who have taken an oath of Honesty and Sustainability, where they are prepared to provide a minimum of $250 US (equivalent in Cdn$ or other foreign currency) a Membership Fee and put in place $2,000 US performance bond that supports the oath. As Members the $2,000 Bond may be put in place through sweat equity, and as Founding Members (the first 50 Members) both the first year’s Membership Fee and the Surety Bond is contributed through sweat equity. Those businesses that do a significant amount of business through MT will increase their performance bond based on a sliding scale percentage and will have it placed with a Bonding Company.
The First Phase involves the coding of reservation software for the collecting of leaders as Members who are incentivized to collaborate, mentor, invest and package travel and health experiences both nationally and internationally.
The Second Phase will include the collecting of Members while begin the ongoing development and execution of an extensive marketing plan to both attract Medical Tourism Members and Consumers, who often will be one in the same. Founding and Full-Members will receive a residual income from each Member they enrol into the Cooperative. This income will be calculated on any of the work that is contracted and completed by those Members which they enrolled into the Cooperative. This entails a single level marketing practice, not a multi-level. While Members are being enrolled, the next phase of the Reservation Software will be incorporated into a sophisticated Accounting System, but a platform to facilitate collaboration and communication between Members to develop local and international tourism packages. This phase will also include working with Mentors to assist new and small businesses to be familiar with local account, licensing and general business requirements, while everything from reduced Merchant Fees, Business and Travel Insurance, Legal, Accounting assistance and other services are brought on board to assist Entrepreneurs as each contributes and acquires assistance on a sweat equity basis during this phase. Eventually a fee for services will be instituted. The Accounting Software will keep track of all equity and monetary contributions and will allow Members to access their account at any time.
The Third Phase will commence in approximately 6 to 8 months, once the 1st & 2nd Phase have gotten significant enough traction to deploy the 3rd Phase. The 3rd Phase being the "going live" of the Reservation System, and the use of Digital Marketing directly into Medical Clinics patients’ sitting areas.
The Fourth Phase being the ongoing tweaking and advancing of the reservation and collaborative software as the sustainability, investment and accelerator portion of the organization is honed and expanded.
The overarching objective of the MT Cooperative is to encourage the grassroots movement to “Live in Integrity with Ourselves, our Neighbour and our Planet”.
MediTours is a cooperatively owned organization that aspires to create an ethical and sustainable business platform that ensures those who work within the organization, profit from it. An organization that encourages sustainability in a world that is heading for the tipping point if ecological balance, personal awareness and spectacular inventions do not combine to transform the way we manufacture, addictively consume and recklessly dispose. Modelled after some of the philosophies of Voluntary Simplicity*1, The Way is a movement that encourages less consumption and more self-reliance, while assisting one's neighbour.
As the advancement of the metaverse, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, virtual and augmented reality take our existence to new levels, The Way intends to create a community that aspires to a fresher, better world. A place where business is conducted from a place of trust and authenticity. As the First World begins to more readily reflect the maladies, corruption and economic struggles of the Third World, mistrust and self-interest rule. MediTours is building a global business community that will not only combat misinformation, take advantage of economies of scale, but will expand to other industries to ensure economic and political leverage while its internal multiplier effect giving substance to its own cryptocurrency.
The target for MT is to be fully operational, rating both Providers and Clients with a Five Star Rating System, providing Members with paid contracts, while taking an administration marketing fee, which includes a small forced savings and charging 1% onto all Medical Tourism contracts with the issuance of a CRA/IRS recognized donation receipt to be provided by the Sugar Bird Charitable Foundation or World Vision depending on what country it is being issued.
