Ardabal (IP) - Head of Iran's International Health Tourism Services said health tourism is one of the most effective element in International economy.

 Iran Press/Iran news: Mohammad Jahangiri in an exclusive interview with Iran Press News Agency said: Health Tourism is among the third best industries in the world and every year this industry has $2 thousand billion direct turnovers and more than $8 thousand billion indirect turnovers.

Jahangiri said 25 percent of this financial circulations originated from Health Tourism which has a good capacity in Iran.

Head of Iran's International Health Tourism Services announced that government agreed on building a modern town for Health Tourism services in northwestern Ardabil Province.

The second conference and expo on Health Tourism of ECO members wrapped up Thursday in Ardabil.

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