Antiaging implementations and elder care in health tourism: Turkey evaluation

The position of antiaging implementations and elder care in health tourism which has been emphasized in recent years is analyzed in this study.In the study the questionaire applied with 284 enterprises which are hotels, thermal institutions and hospitals from 27 provinces in Turkey.%16,5 of the hotels, %84,6 of the thermal institutions and %24,3 of the hospitals within the context of the study take foreign tourists purpose health care.When we analyse the enterprises do not take the foreign tourists purpose health care, it has been determined that although the hotels and the thermal institutions do not plan to provide antiaging implementations, %10,6 of the hospitals arrange to provide antiaging implementations at a future date.The most important difficulty of the enterprises is the undermanned health care employee know foreign language to provide health care services to foreign tourists.It has been seen that the foreign tourists that come to Turkey aiming health care are mostly from Europe countries that live Turkish people most.It has been identified that there is no enterprise that provide the antiaging implementations as a whole. It is important to make investors conscious of the topic of antiaging and elder care