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Increasingly in recent years, international bibliography has been concerned, as is now commonly known, with forms of tourism which contribute, in the own unique way, to the development of destinations. > One of these forms is Medical/Health Tourism, a common phenomenon on a world-wide scale. Greece has tentatively entered this sector of the market. > In this thesis/assignment, the subject of study constitutes the current environment of Medical Tourism, the existing situation in Greece, the institutional framework, the new general regulation( s) pertaining to personal data protection privacyGDPR-and a case study into the current situation of Medical/ Health Tourism in Thessaloníki. > The aim of this study is to identify the current state of Medical/Health Tourism based on evaluations arrived at by the tourists themselves and the reasons for their choice of Medical/ Health Tourism as a destination. > It concerns a primary, sample based, perigraphic study. A broad sample base of 250 respondents of medical/health tourists, who had visited the university hospital Ahepa and the Inter-Balkan hospital/clinic were surveyed in the compilation of the results. The tools used in the compilation of the results, in this case a questionnaire, included twenty pre-determined questions on a structured basis. With the help of the SPSS statistics data analysis program , we codified the results