

Turkey, known as Asia Minor is the oldest country where medicine was born practiced and developed. Doctors Hippocrates and Galen are from this country and they established oldest rules, methods and principles for healing people by using what nature has bestowed upon us. The term of healing water is the oldest metaphor regarding getting people better reliving them from their sufferings and Turkey has best of it. Agamemnon had his soldiers took bath in Izmir before they attracted Troy. Famous Roman Emperors made all the way to Izmir to make use of these holy waters great figures of history of Christianity and Ottoman Empires made remarks how these waters were powerful in making people better and all troubles have gone away.
Turkey is one of the 7 countries in the world in terms of thermal source richness with almost 1300 thermal springs throughout Anatolia. The existence of seismic faults make the country very rich in this aspect. The temperature of these hot springs varies between 20-110 degrees Celsius (68-230 Fahrenheit), and their flow is between 2-500 liters per second.
Wellness concept and wellness tourism is an old tradition. In many ways, this is one of the most ancient forms of tourism if one considers the scrupulous attention paid to well-being by Romans and Ottomans, the quests for spiritual enlightenment of Muslim pilgrims, or the medical seaside and spa tourism of the 18th and 19th century European elite
Health and wellness tourism is now an international trend set by the health conscious consumers seeking to enhance their well being through their travel experiences. This type of consumer seeks to look and feel better, to lose weight, to slow the effects of aging, to relieve pain or discomfort, to manage stress, or to partake in the use of natural supplements like vitamins and minerals to improve their health.