Health Tourism History

A person's travel to another country in order to receive health care is called health tourism.How did health tourism come about?Even 5000 years ago, those who wanted to benefit from the benefits of alternative medicine treatment would visit India. With the spread of Ayurvedic and yoga medical methods in India, health tourism began to develop.When did health tourism start in Turkey?Our country has started to make expansions in the field of health tourism after 2010. While the number of tourists coming to our country was 300,000 in 2013, this number increased to 400,000 in 2014 (TÜRSAB, 2014:9). With the studies carried out, the number of tourists has quadrupled compared to 2010.