‘The number of people coming to Turkey for a hair transplant will increase by 20 percent this year’

Turkish Travel Agency Association (TÜRSAB) President Firuz Bağlıkaya said: “We expect to receive more than 1.8 million health tourists in 2023, with an increase of about 30 percent. Likewise, we anticipate an increase in revenue from health tourism,” he said.

Stating that the upward momentum continues this year, Bağlıkaya said, “The number of visitors who came to our country for health and medical reasons in January-March 2023 increased by 37.5 percent compared to the same period of 2022 and reached 474 thousand 114. We hope that the increase in health tourism will continue in the next period”.

THE MOST ARRIVED IN HAIR TRANSPLANTATION

baglikaya said:

“The preferred clinical branches of international patients who enter the field of health tourism; gynecology, internal medicine, ophthalmology, medical biochemistry, general surgery, dentistry, orthopedics and traumatology, infectious diseases and otorhinolaryngology. Apart from these, hair transplantation, cosmetic and beauty applications also attract a lot of attention.

According to the information we receive from our travel agencies that act as authorized intermediary institutions in the field of health tourism, we can affirm that an important part of the guests who visit our country for health reasons come to have a hair transplant. . The most important hair transplant center in terms of destination is Istanbul.

Due to the increasing demand, many health tourists began to receive health tourists in Antalya and İzmir in the field of hair transplantation. We expect the number of people coming in for a hair transplant this year to increase by around 20 percent compared to 2022.

453 MILLION DOLLARS ARRIVED IN THE FIRST QUARTER

Firuz Bağlıkaya, stating that Turkey is growing at double digits in the field of health tourism, said: “We expect to receive more than 1.8 million health tourists in 2023, with an increase of about 30 percent. In the first quarter of this year, the income obtained from health tourism increased 10.7 percent compared to the same period in 2022 and reached 453 million 714 dollars. (AA)