Health tourism development, strategy to deal with sanctions (Case study: medical tourism development in free trade zones of I.R.Iran)

Iran has potential abilities in tourism industry development. Nevertheless it is facing number of challenges that could note comprehensive sanctions of America and its allies among security council in prohibition of economic relation with Iran .On the one hand, bank sanctions, insurance institutions and applying foreign investment restrictions has brought damage to tourism industry and has minimized the country utilization fortune of foreign exchange sources. On the other hand, increasing exchange cause impressive enhancing of purchasing power of foreign tourists, developing domestic tourism, reducing tourism expenditures and increasing tourism receipts of the country. Review of world health tourism condition shows that many of regional countries utilize their abilities entail high quality and low cost of health services along with medical tourism development and has overcome on foreign threats including economic sanctions. Iran's capabilities also in sciences such as stem cells, repairing SCIs, infertility, liver and kidney linkage, ophthalmology and radiology topics alongside suitable cost of health care and high success rate of special operating are confirmed high potent of country in developing medical tourism. Article outcomes shows that Iran free trade - industrial zones despite many incentives of investing including abolishing visas, facilitating tourist accommodations, foreign investment possibility, freedom of entry and exit in assets and also tourists, various kinds of tax and custom exemption, is a safe place of economic sanctions for developing medical tourism; and strategy of health tourism development is necessity of utilizing investment opportunities and incentives of free trade zones in medical tourism development era.

کلیدواژه ها:

medical tourism ، economic sanctions ، foreign investment ، free trade zones