Medical tourism in Turkey is one of the most important pillars of the Turkish economy, as it is a major source of national income. For this reason, there is great interest in therapeutic tourism in Turkey, where the Turkish government in 2015 formed a coordinating council consisting of several ministries aimed at regulating the functioning of medical tourism and granting certified certificates to hospitals and centers trained in this work.

Turkey has been able to withstand the global competition in the field of medical tourism as the tourist countries are making a lot of effort to provide tourist resorts with high standards to attract tourists from all over the world, and thus Turkey was able to take a leading position in the tourist countries by preserving their natural resources, The development of new sources attracting more tourists.

Many tourists and visitors from all over the world prefer Turkey as a destination for medical tourism because of several advantages:

• Turkey has a mild climate, beautiful landscapes and tourist attractions with a long history. Some patients need to change their places of residence and mental health patients. They need to travel to areas with a wonderful climate and nature to enjoy tranquility, tranquility and psychological comfort.
• The presence of natural springs and springs used for recovery are taken care of significantly. Turkey occupies the first place on the European level in terms of the number of natural springs of about 1500 springs, and is ranked third in terms of facilities that depend on the treatment of mineral water.
• The adoption of health facilities for the latest internationally recognized health care systems.
• The medical staff is distinguished by doctors who speak different languages, as well as interpretation services for several languages ​​such as Arabic, English, German, Russian and Persian.
• The presence of advanced medical centers accredited by the Joint International Committee and competition for the largest centers of the world.
• The medical centers are equipped with all medical supplies and equipment for all surgical procedures.
• High-quality medical treatments are not available in the patient's country of origin.
• The presence of a large number of medical centers specializing in cosmetics.
• The cost of cosmetic surgery is cheap compared to other countries with excellent results.
• Provision of accompanying services and post-treatment services.
• Medical tourism services are of a high quality and low cost compared to other developed countries. There are many tourist companies that organize therapeutic tourism trips in Turkey.
• The availability of Turkish Airlines networks all over the world.
• The cost of the trip itself is not overpriced compared to medical tourism in Europe.
• Medical tourism in Turkey is the same as medical tourism in all countries of the world as it has advantages also disadvantages of the disadvantages of medical tourism in Turkey:

• Lack of follow-up after the patient returns to his country from the medical tourism trip.
• Treatment procedures are sometimes very accurate. A small error threatens the patient's life. Therefore, a good reputed center should be chosen for such treatment.
• Transferring some infectious diseases by tourists from their country to Turkey.

Turkey is one of the most important countries in the field of medical tourism to many advantages mentioned above, and therefore we note that there are many Turkish cities that are famous in the field of medical tourism, the most important city Istanbul, Ankara and Antalya.

Medical tourism in Turkey is divided into two parts:

Health Tourism (Hospital Tourism)

Turkey is one of the leading countries in the field of health tourism, where the Turkish government seeks to improve the health tourism sector or so-called hospital tourism by developing valuable plans for the development of healthy tourism areas in terms of aesthetics of the region and providing all services to tourists in terms of modern technology, With high luxury and other services.

Health tourism is the tendency of the fence to the natural health centers for treatment, the most important springs thermal mineral water, sulfur eyes, lakes, and hot sand. Turkey ranked first in Europe with the largest number of natural springs. Turkey has about 1500 natural springs.

Medical tourism (tourism operations)

Turkey has been able to achieve an excellent international position in the field of medical tourism through the support of the Turkish government to the medical tourism sector, which is supporting hospitals and medical centers, training of medical staff, providing modern and sophisticated treatments and devices.

Medical tourism is the destination of tourists to hospitals and medical centers, which are characterized by high efficiency in terms of medical staff, treatments and modern equipment.