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Medical tourism, which has been developing in recent years, has features that will provide advantages for both developed and developing countries. In this study, which was prepared on what countries should do to realize their strengths and work more intensively in these areas, develop areas where they are weak, and attract potential health tourists, the factors affecting the health tourism competitiveness index were discussed and for this, 388 people were surveyed to evaluate the opinions of health professionals.Determining what competitive advantage, the countries that will compete in medical tourism have and in which areas they can attract potential medical tourists will only be possible by knowing the weights of these factors well and giving importance to these issues. The study is both an important contribution to the field of study and an important source in theory in terms of revealing the components of medical tourism and determining the weights of these components with analytical methods. In the study, an approach based on explanatory factor analysis with international validity was adopted. At the end of the study, it was found that medical tourism consists of four components: cost, destination, health institutions and human resources, and these components are close to each other.

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