Fertility Tourism exists to answer two questions honestly: where can someone in your situation legally do IVF, and what will it really cost compared with staying home.
We are independent
We are not a clinic, an agency, or a law firm. We do not accept referral commissions, we are not paid to rank any destination, and we have no treatment to sell. That independence is the whole point: most of what you find when you search for IVF abroad is published by businesses that profit from your decision. We rank by law, honest success data and cost, not by who advertises hardest.
Who runs this site
Melih Koray, Founder & Editor
Melih Koray founded Fertility Tourism and edits it. He is a designer and web-visibility specialist with more than 20 years in web, design and SEO, including eight-plus years at McKinsey & Company as a Senior Graphic Specialist. Today he is a Senior Designer and Web Optimization Specialist, and he has trained professionals in web design and SEO since 2008. On this site he built the legal-eligibility Finder and the clinic verification method, collects and audits the legal, cost and clinic data, and edits the content. He is not a clinician: medical and legal statements rely on the cited registries, laws and studies, and no named fertility specialist reviews the site. He owns and runs the site; it takes no commissions from any clinic, agency or destination, and no destination pays to be ranked.
Corrections and new sources are welcome through the contact form. You can also find Melih Koray on LinkedIn.
How we research
Every legal and cost claim on this site traces to a named source, and we date it. We prioritise primary and authoritative sources over clinic marketing:
- Success rates: national registries, the US SART/ASRM data and the European ESHRE registry, always labelled with the denominator (per cycle, per retrieval, or per transfer) because those numbers are not interchangeable.
- Legal eligibility: national legislation and regulators (for example Spain's Law 14/2006, Greece's Law 4958/2022), the European Policy for Reproduction FERTIL Atlas, and peer-reviewed comparative reviews.
- Cost: own-egg prices use one unit everywhere, one own-egg IVF cycle before medication, and each figure links to its dated source (US, UK and Spain); donor-egg prices are advertised figures cross-checked across several aggregators and clearly labelled as estimates.
Where a claim could not be verified to our standard, we say so rather than guess. Laws and prices change, so each figure carries a "last verified" date and we revisit them.
Our honesty commitment
We will never show you an inflated success rate to make a destination look better, and we will tell you plainly when a country is not an option for your situation. A guide that only ever says "yes" is selling something. Ours says no when the law says no.
Who this is for
Single women, same-sex female couples, different-sex couples priced out or past an age cap at home, and anyone who needs a donor that their own country restricts. If a country bars you, you deserve to learn that here, in seconds, not after a deposit.