Current situation of medical tourism under healthtourism, potenti̇al and future: Evaluation of medicaltourism in Turkey

In a world of globalization and fierce competition in the market conditions in which we live now, the tourism sector is not possible to stay within national borders. Otherwise, the tourism sector for sustained, rapid innovational and flexible development of its system must constantly update their strategies and potential future trends. Because the main purpose of the tourist's trips to sea, explore new places, creating reasons such as visiting the natural beauty is increasing demand of tourists in different areas. For example, one of them is the medical tourism as a health tourism. In addition to sightseeing tourists, to treat the sick and heal those benefiting from the country's underground and aboveground wealth, healthier and more fit to go to different countries to sustain life, it has led to the emergence of medical tourism. In addition to the attractions, treatment and healing the sick with the country's surface and groundwater resources for the maintenance of a healthy life has led to the emergence of medical tourism. The medical tourism industry is most common in countries such as India, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Jordan and Germany. Because these countries do not only care about the tourism sector, but also made it a part of their policy. Nevertheless, Turkey is a new area of work for medical tourism. The purpose of this study is to examine the situation and the importance of medical tourism in the framework of developing health tourism in Turkey. Medical tourism although is widespread abroad for their fifteen or twenty years, but anyway can not be said that it is quite common in many countries. For this, there were carried out in private clinics analysis of methods and were studied applying forms and contribution to medical tourism. The study included hospitals of Turkey. This study examined the practice of medical tourism in Turkey and was used descriptive research method. At the end of the work has been used a GZFT (SWOT) analysis. As a result of the study, despite the presence in many of the studied hospitals accredited documents of international organizations and a large number of foreign tourists arriving in the area of medical tourism revealed the lack of functioning medical tourism elements. In addition, this study examined the medical tourism situation in Turkey about Turkey and its development and future of the world of medical tourism and poses one of the few studies on the contribution to the national economy in this area. And is so great importance in terms of supply. Keywords: Health tourism, medical tourism, medical tourist, tourism, health institutions.