
| Course Code | : FTR223 |
| Course Type | : Area Elective |
| Couse Group | : Short Cycle (Associate's Degree) |
| Education Language | : Turkish |
| Work Placement | : N/A |
| Theory | : 2 |
| Prt. | : 0 |
| Credit | : 2 |
| Lab | : 0 |
| ECTS | : 3 |
The aim of this course is to know the concepts related to health tourism, to examine the development of health tourism, to examine the health tourism sector and to analyze health tourism in Turkey and in the world.
This course includes the following topics; Health Tourism, medical tourism and advanced age tourism concepts, Health Tourism Market and the concept of reverse flow, Health Tourism Industry, Management of Treatment Process, Customer Expectations in Health Tourism, Areas where medical tourists are mostly treated, Patient Health, Quality, Safety and Risk in Health Tourism , Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Tourism, Health Tourism in Economic, Social and Institutional Aspects, Effects on the System: Source Country, Effects on the System: Destination Country, Health Tourism in Turkey: A General Framework and Medical Tourism, Health Tourism in Turkey: Thermal Tourism, Disabled and Elderly Tourism, Health Tourism Sector and Potential in Europe and the Middle East, Health Tourism Sector and Potential in the Far East and America.