Published on : Tuesday, February 19, 2019
On the other hand, the number of people who visited Turkey for the same purpose in the last 10 years was recorded as totaling 3.2 million, with the impact of investments in health-oriented infrastructure and facilities.
Ankara Health Tourism Association (ASTUD) Chairman Fatih Somuncu said that Turkey is visited by citizens from various countries for the treatment of almost every health problem. Somuncu added that Turkey is mostly preferred for surgeries and operations related to eye diseases, oncology, orthopedics, aesthetics and hair transplantation.
All kinds of tourism activities that offer health benefits are considered health tourism, which covers a wide field of categories such as medical tourism (such as treatment and surgery in hospitals), thermal tourism (services such as rehabilitation and rest in thermal facilities), elderly and disabled tourism (long-term stays with social activities in the geriatric treatment center or plateaus).
The number of medical tourists entering Turkey during the 2009-2018 period has gone up, except for in 2010 and 2015.
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