The concept of health tourism in the world has developed with the increase of health costs in the world, some treatments not being done in their own countries, increased cooperation among countries, having transportation facilities and developing health service quality in different regions of the world.

Health tourism is called the treatment of people for treatment purposes in different countries.

Health Tourism is generally classified under 4 main headings.

• Thermal Health Tourism
• Medical Tourism
• Elderly Tourism
• Disabled Tourism

Health tourism aims to provide medical options to ensure the comfort of patients and their families. In parallel with the high level of education and well-being in developed countries, the provision of health services is also costly. In developed countries, the share of health needs and health expenditures of the aging population is increasing day by day. Increasing expenses of social security costs are forcing social security institutions. To overcome these difficulties, efforts are being made to take low-cost health care services by providing social security institutions and private insurance institutions in developed countries with quality medical services and package agreements with countries in the near future.

In recent years, Turkey is also due to deliver quality health care services at a level that can compete with the developed countries tourists come from around the world for the purpose of treatment. Especially in the 1990s, in addition to public health services, private sector made significant investments in health services.