Mass Tourism, Diversification of Tourism and Health Tourism in Turkey

Mass Tourism, Diversification of Tourism and Health Tourism in Turkey by Tour Guide ( English and Norwegian) and Real Estate Agent in Turkey Sinan Tortum
Both due to the inefficiency of mass tourism caused amongst others by such trends as “all inclusive” my desire to let the younger generation of tour guides deal with mass tourism, my desire to engage myself in other areas of tourism in Turkey. Thanks to some coincidences, I became acquainted with health tourism in Turkey and my belief in this increasing day by day.
I performed for nine seasons duties of representation and tour guiding at Balcova Termal Spa for the Norwegian patients sent by the Norwegian Health authorities. In the beginning of this period, I was considering myself purely as a tour guide and I was not able to conceive the fact that the main reason for their stay at Balcova Termal Spa was treatments.
By getting in close contact with this group of patients, I learned to share their pains and so I could afterwards start seeing the huge potential of health tourism in Turkey.
Working as a tour guide in turkish health tourism is not a job of pleasures. Sometimes to share the patients’ pain and sorrow may also make the guide tired. Of course there are times when you share the pleasures. Anyhow, beeing a tour guide in health tourism requires patience. I mean that a tour guide working in health tourism should be concerned even with the heels of the patient’s shoes. Shortly speaking beeing a tour guide in the health sector means close and intimate contact with and follow-up of the patients.
The first area where I became acquainted with health tourism in Turkey was the treatment of rheumatic diseases. Every year 1.100 norwegian patients from Norway as the main group and other patient groups mainly from the Nordic countries have come to Balcova Termal Spa.
Afterwards, they were also offered dental treatment services at Sun Dental Clinic within Balcova Termal Spa, Balcova, Izmir, Turkey. Sun Dental Clinic in Balcova, Izmir, Turkey is led by the chief dentist Ahmet Ozdemir and has the website www.sundentalclinic.com.
These dental services ranged from sole porcelain crowns to bridges. It is also interesting to note that these patients bought glasses, which are usually half the price of those in Europe.
Eye-treatment by laser also offers a potential. In addition to smaller scale operations such as hernia, aesthetic operations, I have even observed some foreigners choosing to be operated at the turkish hospitals in order to save money and avoid the long queues in the home country.
Health tourism potential in Turkey covers a wide spectrum of applications. Last, but not the least, I can mention wellness-fitness, sslimming, detox programmes.
Turkey with health and treatment institutions and clinics and competitive prices has a big potential. In health tourism one has the advantage of making a reasonable profit if standards are met in contrast to the ineffeciency situation in the turkish mass
tourism.




Sinan Tortum- Tour guide ( English and Norwegian) in Ephesus/ Selcuk, Kusadasi, Izmir, Foca, Cesme area and Real Estate Agent in Turkey
Sinan Tortum is the team leader of FELLOW GUIDES- a group of Turkish private tour guides with tour guide services in Izmir, Selcuk, Ephesus, Kusadasi, Istanbul, Cesme, Foca, Karaburun, Sigacik, Teos, Dikili, Pergamon, Ayvalik, Akcay, Pamukkale, Cappadocia ( Urgup, Goreme, Avanos), Antalya, Kemer, Side, Alanya, Bodrum, Marmaris, Didim and Urla in Turkey in English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Polish.
We cooperate with the local agencies for tours in Izmir, Selcuk, Ephesus, Kusadasi, Istanbul, Cesme, Foca, Karaburun, Sigacik, Teos, Dikili, Pergamon, Ayvalik, Akcay, Pamukkale, Cappadocia ( Urgup, Goreme, Avanos), Antalya, Kemer, Side, Alanya, Bodrum, Marmaris, Didim and Urla. We offer private and group tours in Turkey.
Sinan Tortum is also team member of http://www.izmirtourism.com/ which is a modern, friendly and comprehensive website about Izmir ( Smyrna), Turkey.
Representative for Sun Dental Clinic in Balcova, Izmir, Turkey- Dental Treatment Services in Izmir Turkey
http://www.sundentalclinic.com/
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=66378 is the news about Dentist Ahmet Ozdemir and Sun Dental Clinic in Balcova, Izmir, Turkey
Mail : stortum@yahoo.no
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