Assessment of medical tourism in the province by Arc GIS software (Case Study: I.R.Iran)

Health Tourism in general and medical tourism in particular is one of the Types of tourism that its annual income in the world estimated to be about a hundred billion dollars. Medical tourism which has a rich history¡ in recent centuries organized and Private and governmental organizations have benefited from the interests. In this paper¡ with four important¡ general and profound indexes¡ after six months of study¡ Such as average temperature¡ density of hospital¡ hospital size and population density of medical centers try reach to an overview of the requirements in the field of tourism As well as its relationship with the population density. We via overlaying indexes by Arc GIS software have found to a clear estimate of the best provinces to creation and promotion of medical tourism. According to estimates of this article¡ most points got more provinces of the north and northwest and west and Khorasan province in the East and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari in the southwest.