We can list the general reasons for patients to do health tourism as follows:

- Scarcity or absence of high-tech healthcare and professional human resources in their home country.

- Long standby time

- The fact that health services are expensive in their own countries, the same service can be obtained more affordable in other countries

- Desire to receive quality health care

- Doesn't want his/her surgery to be known for any reason in his/her own country

- Having problems with health insurance,

- Chronic patients, the elderly and the disabled want to be treated in a different environment,

- The desire of people with drugs and different addictions to be in different or more suitable environments,

- Desire to take a vacation with treatment

- Desiring to benefit from the climatic and geographical characteristics of a country different from his/her country (such as seeing countries with forests, highlands, different history and culture)

- Desire to meet with thermal waters in countries with thermal facilities

Health tourism is very diverse and may have many reasons. The main reason is that patients want to solve their health problems in a different country with better facilities or to receive the same service more economically.

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, crowding in hospitals, long waits, 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.

12 months of the year contribute to the continuation of tourism in countries with health tourism. In countries that attract tourists with health tourism, natural assets that do not normally have economic value but beneficial to health (such as forest, healing water, mountain) gain the quality of economic products and contribute to the income of the region.

Expenditures made by tourists provide income increase. It contributes positively to the images of countries around the world.

Turkey is very suitable for health tourism with its geographical location, health institutions, educated manpower, spas and natural beauties. With its historical and cultural richness and its level of competence in the field of health, Turkey is among the 10 most popular countries in the world.