Identification of Antalya medical tourism cluster and examination of the network structures

The main purpose of the thesis which named " Idendification of Antalya Medical Tourism Cluster and Examination of Network Structures", is to describe The Antalya Medical Tourism Cluster that in recent years to started to operate in the medical tourism industry and to examine network structures. The study consists of three parts. In the first part, there is the basic contists of medical tourism. In the second part, there is literature reviews about medical tourism market and clustering on the medical tourism. In the third part, there is purpose and importance of study and methodology of study and also there are analysis of quastionnaries which contucted to with the representatives of privates health care providers operating in the Antalya Medical Tourism Cluster. As a result of findings, the global relationship networks of private health care providers operating in the Antalya Medical Tourism Cluster have emerged to be insufficient. And also, there is a lack of collaboration between private health care providers has been identified. Keywords: Medical Tourism, Clustering, Relation Network, Antalya