This page has been prepared for informative purposes only regarding health tourism incentive consultancy.
Health tourism is among the export items that bring foreign currency to our country and in this respect, it is supported by the support packages announced by the Ministry of Trade. Globally, health tourism is an area in which countries compete, and each country supports health facilities and intermediary organisations operating in this field in order to attract potential health tourists worldwide and to generate foreign currency income. Our country is one of the leading countries that support organisations operating in the field of health tourism.
Health tourism incentive consultancy includes providing the necessary legal support for organisations to benefit from these incentives, making applications in accordance with the legislation in order to benefit from the supports and following the process.
Both health facilities and intermediary organisations holding a health tourism authorisation certificate can benefit from these supports by meeting the conditions in the legislation.
What are Health Tourism Incentives?
The Ministry of Trade can provide a total of 19 items of support in the field of health tourism. Each of these supports, which were announced with the Decision No. 5448 on the Definition, Classification and Support of Service Exports published by the Ministry of Trade in 2022, has its own conditions and application procedures. If these conditions are fulfilled, it is possible to benefit from the supports.
- Registration and Protection Support
- Market Entry Documents Support
- Agency Commission Support
- Complications and Travel Health Insurance Support
- Employment Support
- Foreign Language and Health Tourism Training Support
- Patient Road Support
- Advertising, Promotion and Marketing Support
- Unit Support
- International Event Participation Support
- National Participation Organisation Promotion Support
- Domestic Event Participation Support
- Domestic Promotion and Training Support
- Product Placement Support
- Sectoral Buyer Delegation and Sectoral Trade Delegation Support
- HISER Project Application
- Virtual Fair Organisation Support
- Support for the Development and Promotion of Health and Sports Tourism Sectors
- Competition and Event Support
How to Get Health Tourism Incentives?
Each incentive item has separate conditions and application procedures. In addition, there are upper limits determined separately for each incentive item. In general, since the principle of spend first and then get incentives is valid in incentives, the incentive request is in question with the expenditure documents after the expenditure is made.
At this point, it is extremely important to determine the incentive conditions correctly and to provide documents and applications accordingly. In this sense, health tourism incentive consultancy is of critical importance in order not to make incorrect applications and to finalise the applications positively.
In addition, 60% of the expenditures made for health tourism activities are paid within the scope of incentives. For some priority and target countries, this rate increases to 70%. Priority and target countries are listed below:
| Germany United States of America Azerbaijan United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Bulgaria Algeria France Ghana Georgia Netherlands Spain Israel Sweden Canada | Qatar Kazakhstan Kuwait Egypt Nigeria Norway Uzbekistan Pakistan Romania Russian Federation Senegal Sudan Saudi Arabia Ukraine Oman |
How to Apply for Health Tourism Incentive?
Let us remind you that in order to apply for incentives, it is necessary to have a health tourism authorisation certificate. Both health facilities and intermediary organisations must have obtained a health tourism authorisation certificate from the Ministry of Health in order to benefit from these incentives.
The Ministry of Trade has designated the Service Exporters’ Association as the examining organisation. The organisation wishing to benefit from the incentives must first become a member of the reviewing organisation and make a pre-approval application for the first support. Applications are made to the General Secretariat of the Association of Service Exporters via KEP and the pre-approval application process is initiated with the application documents specified in the legislation.
Following the pre-approval, it is necessary to apply separately with the provision of the documents related to which support is desired to benefit from.
This page has been prepared for informative purposes only regarding health tourism incentive consultancy.
This content has been automatically translated into English from the Turkish original.
Av. Arb. Bahadırhan Tabak
He completed their bachelor's degree at Istanbul University Faculty of Law and their master's degree in Public Law at Çankaya University. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Medical Law at Medeniyet Üniversitesi. Starting his career as a judge, TABAK served in Elazığ and Ankara for a period of time. Most recently, while serving as a judge at the 15th Civil Chamber of the Court of Cassation, which acts as a higher court reviewing legal disputes arising from aesthetic operations, he resigned from the judiciary and transitioned to private practice. Currently, he is registered with the Istanbul Bar Association as an attorney and mediator, focusing primarily on Health Law in his legal practice. Click Here For Detailed Information