The most preferred countries in the field of health tourism; USA, India, Cuba, Costa Rica, Thailand, Singapore, Colombia, Malaysia, Turkey, Mexico, Germany and South Korea. South and Central American countries generally serve American citizens seeking treatment options outside the United States due to very high treatment costs. Patients who want to receive better medical services from the immediate environment, such as Indonesia and the Philippines, come to Malaysia. There is a movement within European countries. For example, 60% of patients coming to Belgium from abroad come from the Netherlands.
Well, let’s look at what features these countries attract health tourists;
- Countries such as Germany, the USA, and South Korea have good health care quality and technological equipment.
- Thermal tourism in Hungary, elderly tourism in Spain, medical tourism in India are due to the policies of giving importance to tourism and health tourism from the past in these countries.
- Since the main source of income for countries such as Singapore, Thailand, Cyprus, Costa Rica is tourism.
- Jordan, India, Malaysia, Brazil, Malta; due to foreign capital inflow and using the advantages of doctors trained abroad
- Countries such as Jordan, Iran, Malaysia, Brazil due to their geographical and political location advantages.
Countries such as Turkey, Malaysia and Israel, on the other hand, have many advantages; These countries are among the reasons for preference of health tourists due to their geographical location, being a tourism country, using advanced technology in health, providing quality health services, and being economically priced.
For their health, people are no longer just the health opportunities and expenses in their own countries; It acts by researching and comparing treatment and expenses in other countries. Health tourism has become a sector in itself, as there are conscious patients who encounter problems such as the problems of the health sector, congestion in hospitals, long waiting times, high treatment costs, and the quality of the service received, and that they have the opportunity to benefit from the health services of other countries. All health-related procedures, from plastic surgery to in vitro fertilization, from hair transplantation to dental treatment, the accommodation sector, hospitals, thermal health facilities, SPA centers and health cure centers, rehabilitation centers serve health tourism.
