DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH TOURISM IN DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY

dc.contributor.authorGümüş, Rojan
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-08T18:27:50Z
dc.date.available2025-03-08T18:27:50Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.departmentDicle Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractHealth tourism has grown in all over the world but the number of patients coming for health tourism to Turkey is very limited yet. Health tourism is potentially one of the strongest areas of Turkish tourism supply. This study provides a profile of the health tourism sector in Diyarbakır, Turkey. Although tourism officials discuss from different viewpoints that health tourism is one of the strengths of Diyarbakır tourism for future investment, the promotion of city’s qualified health institutions and staff, historical and natural places, and hospitality of citizens is not adequate in creating demand for health tourism. The aim of the study is to investigate the current status of health tourism in Diyarbakır and to make recommendations for future investments and promotional activities in order to increase number of medical tourists. The study is based on data delivered from tourism and health institutions for the years 2015-2018. The current paper reports that in 2016 and 2017 there is a meaningful increase in total tourist and health tourist number visiting Diyarbakır. Most of the patients received health service from private hospitals and came from Iraq. Germany, Syria and Azerbeijan are the countries which other health tourists come from.Foreign patients received healthcare service mostly from cardiology, orthopedics and traumatology clinics. Internal medicine, urology and general surgery are the following most prefferred health services by health tourists.
dc.identifier.doi10.31201/ijhmt.489522
dc.identifier.endpage176
dc.identifier.issn2458-9608
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.startpage164
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.31201/ijhmt.489522
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11468/31258
dc.identifier.volume3
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherDilaver TENGİLİMOĞLU
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Health Management and Tourism
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_DergiPark_21250205
dc.subjectHealth tourism
dc.subjectForeign patients
dc.subjectDiyarbakır
dc.subjectChallenges
dc.subjectOpportunities
dc.titleDEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH TOURISM IN DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY
dc.typeArticle

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