Medical Tourism Potentials and Prospects: The Case of TRNC

This research looked into the possibility of TRNC becoming a leading destination in the Mediterranean region for medical tourism. Medical tourism is one of the potential part that have been overlooked and neglected in TRNC despite it’s potential for a lucrative medical tourism. While Medical tourism has started gaining ground in other third world countries. This study has aimed to investigate and explore the potential and challengies of medical tourism in trnc for this purpose a qualitative research approach was applied and employed an indept interview have been uterlized based on non probability sampliing respondent within the Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Health have been interviewed to further the spectrum of the research private clinics are also included , this study has also tried to interview some patients .the finding of the study at the end of this research that if the Government of TRNC can build a profitable medical tourism as it possess a reasonably medical infrastructure.However as the study revealed Government and private sector have been complacent and overlooked the potential of this type of Tourism.One of the study also revealed one of the main challengies facing officials is commitment to introduce and build TRNC as a destination for medical tourist. Keywords:Medical Tourism, Potentials, Medical tourism challengies, organizational issues and TRNC.