Şahbaz, R. Pars; Akdu, Uğur; Akdu, Serap

In this investigation, medical tourism within health tourism and examine the applications of medical tourism in Turkey and by analyzing the help and the styles of application of private hospitals for medical tourism to expose the extant situation in Turkey is purposed. The investigation universe is appointed as the private hospitals in Ankara and Istanbul. As a result, the hospitals included in the research has international accreditation certificate. Only a small number of hospitals are performed medical tourism activities. The patients mostly comes from Germany, Netherlands and Turkic Republic for treatment of heart, eye and dental diseases