Islamabad, May 8 -- The global turnover in the field of health tourism is measured in billions of dollars. This type of tourism, as an alternative one, is very relevant in Azerbaijan, Ruslan Guliyev, Chairman of the Azerbaijani Association for Support of Medical and Thermal Tourism and President of the World Health Tourism Organization, told Trend.

According to the Chairman, health tourism is very popular around the world, from America to Malaysia, and the number of people interested in it is growing year by year.

"Neither environmental disasters, nor local wars in various countries can prevent tourists from making health trips. Therefore, if other types of tourism are sometimes subject to recession, health tourism is always profitable....