COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HEALT TOURISM

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TUR 3034 HEALT TOURISM ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Tourism Management

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ÖVÜNÇ BARDAKOĞLU

Offered to

Tourism and Hotel Management
Tourism Management

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to know the concepts related to health tourism, to examine the development of health tourism, to examine the health tourism sector and to analyze health tourism in Türkiye and the world.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Explain the concepts, characteristics and types of health tourism.
2   Expresses the development and reasons for the development of health tourism.
3   Discusses the legal regulations in practice related to the health tourism sector.
4   Analyzes and evaluates health tourism in Türkiye and the world.
5   Analyzes the health tourism market, industry and treatment processes and explains the advantages and disadvantages of Türkiye on the subject.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Health Tourism, medical tourism and advanced age tourism concepts.
2 Health Tourism Market and the concept of reverse flow.
3 Health tourism industry.
4 Health tourism industry.
5 Customer expectations in health tourism.
6 Quality, safety and risks in health tourism.
7 Midterm Exam/lecture
8 Economic and social impacts of health tourism.
9 Health tourism in Türkiye
10 Health tourism in Türkiye
11 Thermal, disabled and elderly tourism in Türkiye
12 Health tourism in Europe and Middle East
13 Health tourism in the Far East and America
14 general review
15 Final exam
16 final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Tengilimoğlu, D. (Ed.). (2013). Sağlık turizmi, Siyasal Kitabevi.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Face to face.
Lecture method, question-answer method, discussion method, case study and problem solving method.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Dokuz Eylul University Associate and Undergraduate Education and Examination Regulations
School of Applied Sciences Teaching and Examination Principles

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ceylan.alkan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Will be announced later.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 1 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 116

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16
LO.15
LO.255
LO.355
LO.45
LO.55