Tourists bathing in the travatine pools and thermal waters of Pamukkale in Turkey’s west. (Alamy Stock Photo)<\/p>\n
Turkey attracted nearly 1 million people for health tourism in 2018, said an industry official on March 19.<\/p>\n
\u201cThermal tourism contributes to Turkey’s economy with healing waters, as well as seas, rivers and lakes,\u201d Yavuz Y\u0131l\u0131k, head of the Thermal Health and Tourism Association (TESTUD), told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n
Y\u0131l\u0131k stressed that Turkey is one of the world’s top seven countries for thermal springs, with about 1,500 natural hot spring water resources.<\/p>\n
\u201cProtecting our health-giving healing waters, using them properly, and passing them down to future generations with the same qualities is also important for the country’s future,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tourists bathing in the travatine pools and thermal waters of Pamukkale in Turkey’s west. (Alamy Stock Photo) Turkey attracted nearly 1 million people for health tourism in 2018, said an industry official on March 19. \u201cThermal tourism contributes to Turkey’s economy with healing waters, as well as seas, rivers and lakes,\u201d Yavuz Y\u0131l\u0131k, head of … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":2235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bazer-bashi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bazer-bashi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bazer-bashi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bazer-bashi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bazer-bashi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bazer-bashi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bazer-bashi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bazer-bashi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bazer-bashi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bazer-bashi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}