Hakan Çora

A Contemporary Research on Turkish Healthcare Tourism Management and Organization in the New Millennium Hakan Çora

Nowadays, people are in search of both traveling in good suitable conditions and new and having different holiday experiences. Long waiting times, high costs and health insurance problems force some people to go abroad for treatment. This has led to an increase in the demand for external resources and thus the emergence of healthcare tourism. Healthcare tourism is a type of service tourism in which various medical and nonmedical treatments are offered in combination with travel and accommodation services. Health tourism includes traveling from one's normal place of accommodation to a country or region for the purpose of receiving medical (organ transplantation, surgeries, dental and eye treatments, diagnostic services, etc.) or non-medical (plastic surgery operations, wellness and fitness, geriatric care and treatments, etc.) services.