• Recently, many people have turned to a healthy lifestyle, and this has major implications for tourism. Health tourism is an important and growing branch of the tourism industry and has become a popular tourism that has attracted the attention of many countries in recent years, especially with the increase in treatment costs and the advancement of medical technologies.
  • More and more people have decided to choose destinations that can provide health and medical facilities. People who want to improve their health and well-being choose this type of tourism. This type of tourism promises an opportunity to maintain and improve overall health and is the intersection of two important issues; tourism and health.
  • The World Health Organization defines health tourism as travel related to maintaining or improving personal health.
    There is a common misconception that health travelers are a small group of elite and wealthy leisure tourists who visit destination spas, health resorts or yoga and meditation centers. In fact, health travelers constitute a much broader and more diverse group of consumers with many motivations, interests, and values.
  • Health tourism is generally divided into three main categories                                                                                                1. Medical tourism
    This type of tourism is generally carried out for the treatment of illness or surgery or health check-ups of the tourist in clinics and hospitals in countries with high medical facilities and reasonable treatment costs. Medical tourism is the most important and sensitive type of tourism because it is directly related to human life and health. In this type, people travel to another country to receive specialized medical services.
    Sample services:
    Heart, brain and nerve surgeries, organ transplants, infertility treatment (IVF), orthopedic surgeries, cancer treatment
    Reasons for travel: Lower cost, higher quality of treatment, faster access to specialist doctors, use of advanced technologies

2. Nature tourism
Nature tourism means people traveling to use natural healing resources (mineral waters, salt, mud, etc.) to treat certain diseases or to recover under the supervision and intervention of a doctor. This type is based on natural healing resources and is mostly traditional and natural.
Examples:                                                                                                                                                                                Mineral hot springs, mud therapy, salt therapy, hydrotherapy Benefits: Reducing muscle and joint pain, improving skin diseases, calming nerves and reducing stress

3. Health tourism
In this type of health tourism, a person travels to maintain and strengthen their health and spirits, and to get rid of the tensions of daily life and regain strength, without medical intervention and supervision. Usually, these tourists do not have a specific physical illness and are mostly looking to benefit from healing nature and avoid the crowds, tensions and pollution of urban life. This type focuses on prevention, relaxation and improving the quality of life, not treating a specific disease.
Common services:
Yoga and meditation, spa and massage therapy, diet therapy, body detoxification, mental health care

  • Reasons for the growth of health tourism in the world
    Increasing treatment costs in developed countries, advancement of medical technology in developing countries, increasing public awareness of health, increasing elderly people in the world, facilitating international travel, widespread advertising of medical centers
  • Benefits of health tourism for patients:
    Significant reduction in costs, access to specialist doctors, combining treatment with travel and rest, reducing waiting time for treatment for the host country, high foreign exchange, creating employment, developing medical infrastructure, promoting the national brand in the field of health
    Challenges and disadvantages of health tourism: Differences in medical standards between countries, legal problems in the event of medical errors, language and cultural barriers, risks after the patient returns, the need for complex treatment coordination, lack of adequate and appropriate infrastructure in developing countries, lack of professional medical staff in some developing countries, the problem of not having a uniform and fair pricing system, and differences in quality, the absence of any standard rules Global in this industry due to its emerging
  • Benefits and reasons for choosing health tourism as a treatment option There are many reasons that cause people to seek medical
  • treatment abroad, the most important of which are:
    • Disappointment with treatment in their own country
    • Lack of access to medical care and treatment at the right time and at the right cost
    • Insufficient insurance and income to cover the costs of local medical services
    • High quality of medical care and treatment in developing countries
    • Variety of treatment options
    • Desire to receive medical care away from a uniform and permanent location
    • No waiting list
    • Growing popularity for medical services and treatment abroad
  • • Access to the latest technology
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