Tourism in Turkey

İZMİR HEALTH TOURISM

Do you want to get healthy again by travelling and having fun? So, Come to İzmir!

Some reasons like the increase of elderly population around the world, the rise of health service prices at developed countries, the extension of waiting period, inadequate medical background at own country of the patient and privacy have brought our country at health tourism to the important level.

Health tourism has maintained its works started with constitution of coordinatorship at our health organizations within an operation systematically in İzmir to be provided health need of tourists coming to our country. There are 11321 sickbeds totally, 2 public universities, 6 research and training hospitals, 1 dental hospital, 28 public hospitals, 6284 public sickbeds at İzmir. Tire, Menemen and Atatürk Research and Training hospital have Foreign Patient Units. Moreover, Our cooperation is continued with consulate.

Health Tourism has maintaned the basic orientation of works as focusing work and various disciplines cooperatively in İzmir where is a health city and tourism city.

Trusting the past improves the future; Health Tourism with historical origins in İzmir

İzmir is one of honor cities in our country within expression of İzmir health tourism because the world history of health starts in İzmir. Our city contains health within itself as historical consciousness besides contemporary achivements in the field of medicine. Asklepion at Bergama is one of historical hospitals. In addition to this, Karantina Island was a place where cured patients with natural beauties and higher technological facilities according to its own period’s conditions many years ago.

‘ Art therapy’ method remined its importance with constitution of Community Mental Health Centers at today’s health structuring was used in Asklepion for the first time.

Bergama is the health city where natural therapy ways like music, theatre, spor, sun, mud are used and the symbol of ‘snakes’ was found here for the first time. Moreover, Asklepion which is first large hospital was built, first psychotherapy was performed, prepared medicaditon contained opium for the first time. Asklepion worked as medicine school and a hospital as well contributed to medical science considerably.

Hippocrate was one of the famous physicians in Galen Asklepion. Physician of the city used healing water discovered currently, radioactive features thanks to using methods which were advanced. In addition to this, he used the methods which people look for healing currently like music therapy, spa, mud bath, meditation, inspiration, aromatherapy at Ancient Age. These high level achievements obtained within the field of health provided remaining the city as ‘death cannot enter’, ‘the city which testaments are not opened’

It is known that first course of treatment at a spa started at Güzellik Ilıcası of Bergama

in Anatolia as well It is reputed that Egyptian queen, Cleopatr a had a bath with this water and she owed her beauty to this water. Minerals in spa water beautify the skin. Therefore, this place is called as Güzellik Ilıcası.

Cultures, Civilizations leave a mark, clue to each other by migrating… These clues make easier the rest of people’s lives. Mostly, it is good to evaluate these marks. For instance,’ Why İzmir was the centre of health many years ago?’ Was the period’s condition determinative or is there a natural therapy mechanism which still continues? Air, Water, Sun? Does it reinforce methods of thinking clearly with scientific method like air, water, sun, observation, researching, evidence, experiment? The thought of the person who lived here before makes room for the living and it hosts for one person more, it makes feel like motherland more. İzmir reinforces the sense of ‘health motherland’ as a place where the health and history tells on all sides.

Natural cure; clay (mud), water, air: Unrequited care. A complement treatment for sickness which demonstrate the friendship and neediness each other

Aegean Cuisine, Sea Water, Summer Sun

İzmir is the city which is powerful in terms of own health resources. Air of İzmir brings together plentiful climate, water of Aegean Region with healing and İzmir is a place where flows each other as invisible historical runnels. Relief is hidden in air of İzmir; softness in its water; healing in its sun; a seed in its soil.

İzmir is the city of beauty and plentifulness. The city which sensitive people to health live and has developed day by day in terms of thinking clearly. The city which people have healthy nutrition habit special to Aegean Region and saving the health with a view to a seed for grandchildren. the increase of elderly population is a picture which will be taken pride in terms of the health. Accordingly, this situation shows that people take care of their health by a majority. İzmir includes lots of vegetable which act as antioxidant for our body like artichoke, celery, broad bean, cowpea, wild radish, creeper, fennel, portulaca, stinger… Aegean Cuisine based olive oil is renowned worldwide

Existing that is not felt its existence. Being slight like a butterfly without any pain, ache. Filling into the cup of the life like a softness of olive oil…İf we dont have any pain or ache, the parts of our body do not come to the forefront…If the definiton of health is naturalness only, living in İzmir which has these natural beauties means being lucky

In our day, the understanding of health is a series of temponized health measures which is a blockage compensator caused due to technological developments simplifying the life largely or it is such an acute reaction. Therefore, demand of natural methods has increased in health tourism. This includes various natural theraphy methods, healing water, thermal and a course of treatment at a spa. Today’s humanbeing has looked for the methods based naturalness. Hence, İzmir is preferred thanks to healing rich underground resources independently.

Invitation

If you ask which city cheerful and hospitable people live in, mentioned place will be İzmir. If you ask which city people describing a place in details for finding an address, mentioned place will be İzmir.

We are honoured to host you in İzmir. We wait all people who want to return to the initial point of their health and people who want to be reborn, get healthy again to İzmir.

We send our love to every one from İzmir where brings together these people with equal health slogan at universal language of health