Health Tourism Development a Strategy to Deal with Sanctions Case Study: Medical Tourism Development in Free Trade Zones of Iran

Amir Hossein Ghezelbash () and Seyed Mahdi Seyed Abdollahi ()
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Amir Hossein Ghezelbash: Student of Tourism Management, School of Tourism, Semnan University, Molavi St., Sadi Sq., Semnan, Iran
Seyed Mahdi Seyed Abdollahi: Master of Tourism Management, Department of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Shahid Abbaspoor Road, Valieasr St. Tehran, Iran,

International Journal of Resistive Economics, 2013, vol. 1, issue 1, 56-69

Abstract: Iran has potential abilities in tourism industry development. But it is facing the challenges that could note the comprehensive sanctions of America and its allies among Security Council in prohibition of economic relation with Iran. On the one hand bank sanctions and applying foreign investment restrictions has brought damage to tourism industry and has lowered opportunity to benefit from the country's foreign exchange resources. But, rising exchange has caused impressive enhancing of purchasing power of foreign tourists, developing domestic tourism, cutting cost and raising tourism revenues of the country. Review of world health tourism condition shows that many of regional countries are using their health abilities including high quality and low cost health services to overcome on foreign threats such as economic sanctions. Iran's capabilities in medical sciences 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 Iran free trade zones because many incentives of investing, is a safe place of economic sanctions for developing medical tourism and strategy of health tourism development is need of using investment opportunities and incentives of free trade zones in medical tourism development.

Keywords: Medical tourism; economic sanctions; foreign investment; free trade zones. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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