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TÜRK DÜNYASINDA SAĞLIK TURİZMİ
HEALTH TOURISM IN TURKHISH WORLD

Author(s): Hürriyet Çimen
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Tourism, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Kültür Ajans Tanıtım ve Organizasyon
Keywords: Türkish world; health; tourism; health tourism; termal tourism; spawellness;

Summary/Abstract: Health tourism has become an important tourism kind in respect to revenue and the number of participant. It is supposed that it will go on developing increasingly within the next years. Health tourism has actualised for three different purposes. The first of them is Medical tourism, the second one is thermal spring and spa-wellness, and the third one is the tourism of elderly care and disabled care. The leading countries in health tourism are India, Singapore,Malaysia, South Africa and Turkey respectively. Turkey is on the fifth rank in World Health Tourism. More than three hundreds patience acceptance have been taken place to Turkey by year of 2013. Patiences usually from Germany, Holland, Austria, Iraq and Belgium utilize a service related to generally eye, tooth, orthopedics and plastic surgery fileds. The vital leading destinations are Antalya and Istanbul in Turkey.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 101-110
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Turkish