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Potential Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies ChatGPT in Health Tourism: Opportunities and Risks

Yapay Zeka Teknolojilerinden ChatGPT’nin Sağlık Turizminde Potansiyel Kullanımı: Fırsatlar ve Riskler

Fatma Özçelik Heper(İSTANBUL GELİŞİM ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İKTİSADİ, İDARİ VE SOSYAL BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ)0000-0002-7591-0813
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108–122
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2025-12-17
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The study concluded that ChatGPT can be used by both businesses and customers in the tourism and its sub-sector, health tourism, but its use alone is unsafe due to security, privacy, ethical concerns, and a lack of up-to-date information.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Artificial intelligence technologies like ChatGPT, a language model trained on vast amounts of internet text, process online data with advanced algorithms and are attracting significant attention for their ability to understand and communicate with human language.
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Key Findings & Data:This model, which attempts to mimic human text, offers benefits such as personalized service, travel planning, simplifying booking processes, data processing, increased revenue, and streamlined business processes.
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Artificial intelligence technologies like ChatGPT, a language model trained on vast amounts of internet text, process online data with advanced algorithms and are attracting significant attention for their ability to understand and communicate with human language. This technology offers advantages in various areas for tourism and health tourism. This model, which attempts to mimic human text, offers benefits such as personalized service, travel planning, simplifying booking processes, data processing, increased revenue, and streamlined business processes. It can also play a variety of roles in healthcare services and health research. In the field of health tourism, it can be used in data analysis, treatment and diagnosis, patient monitoring, marketing, efficiency enhancement, and patient satisfaction and experience. In this study, we first explained the conceptual framework for artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, and the applications of these technologies in tourism and health tourism. Following this, eight questions were posed to ChatGPT regarding health tourism, aligned with the literature and consulting with experts. The responses were compared with the literature and found to be consistent. The study concluded that ChatGPT can be used by both businesses and customers in the tourism and its sub-sector, health tourism, but its use alone is unsafe due to security, privacy, ethical concerns, and a lack of up-to-date information.

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Devasa miktarda internet metni üzerinde eğitilmiş bir dil modeli olan ChatGPT gibi yapay zeka teknolojileri gelişmiş algoritmalarla çevrimiçi verileri işlemekte ayrıca insan dilini anlayıp iletişim kurma yeteneğiyle büyük ilgi görmektedir. Bu teknoloji turizm ve sağlık turizmi için çeşitli alanlarda avantajlar sunmaktadır. Kişiselleştirilmiş hizmet, seyahat planlaması, rezervasyon süreçlerini kolaylaştırmak, veri işleme, gelir artışı, iş süreçlerinde kolaylık gibi faydalar sunmakla birlikte İnsan metinlerini taklit etmeye çalışan bu model, sağlık hizmetleri ve sağlık araştırmalarında da çeşitli roller üstlenebilir. Sağlık turizmi alanında veri analizinde, tedavi ve teşhiste, hasta takibinde, pazarlamada, verimliliği artırmada, hasta memnuniyeti ve deneyimleri alanlarında kullanılabilmektedir. Bu çalışma kapsamında öncelikle yapay zeka, ChatGPT ve bu teknolojilerin turizm ile sağlık turizmi konularında kullanım alanlarına ilişkin kavramsal çerçeve açıklanmış sonrasında literatür ile uyumlu olarak ve uzman görüşü de alınarak sağlık turizmi ile ilgili ChatGPT’ye sekiz adet soru yöneltilmiştir. Alınan yanıtlar literatür ile karşılaştırılarak uyumlu olduğu saptanmıştır. Araştırmada ChatGPT’nin turizm ve alt dalı olan sağlık turizmi sektöründe hem işletmeler hem de müşteriler tarafından kullanılabileceği fakat güvenlik, gizlilik, etik ve güncel bilgi eksikliği gibi sebeplerden dolayı tek başına kullanımının sakıncalı olduğu sonucu tespit edilmiştir.

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Heper, F. Ö. (2025). Potential Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies ChatGPT in Health Tourism: Opportunities and Risks. Journal of Silk Road Tourism Research, Cilt: 5 Sayı: 2, 108–122. https://ajindex.com/articles/1619169

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