International Conference on Eurasian Economies
9-11 September 2015 – Kazan, RUSSIA
Paper detail
Paper ID : 1440
Status : Paper published
Language : Turkish
Topic : Sectoral Analyses
Presenter: Ph.D. candidate Vedat Moloğlu
Session : 5D Mikroekonomi I
Rising Medical Tourism with a Value; Contribution to Turkey’s Economy
Yükselen Bir Değer Olan Medikal Turizmin; Türkiye Ekonomisine Katkısı
- Ph.D. candidate Vedat Moloğlu (Istanbul Aydın University, Türkiye)
Abstract
In today’s globalising world, with the developing of countries, trying new income opportunities has been inevitable. Tourism, which is one of the biggest alternative income sources for countries, has been one of the sectors that getting more and more important for countries in terms of social and economic aspects. At first, doing tourism mostly refers to holiday and tours. However, recently this concept expanded with the added health tourism. The main purpose of this study, investigating the medical tourism that is a type of health tourism and getting more and more important in Turkey. The study firstly begins with the giving information about concept definition of medical tourism, and historical background of it. Then, with the investigating medical tourism in the world and Turkey setting, it was aimed that reaching a holistic point of view about it in terms of macro and micro profits to our economy. Lastly, to execute existing state of medical tourism in Turkey, the opportunities and weakness of medical tourism in Turkey was defined. Managerial and further research implications are also provided.
JEL codes: A11
Moloğlu, Vedat (2015). "Rising Medical Tourism with a Value; Contribution to Turkey’s Economy" in Proceedings of International Conference of Eurasian Economies 2015, pp.673-680, Kazan, RUSSIA.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36880/C06.01440
