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International medical and wellness professionals are congregating today in Austria at St. Martins Spa and Lodge for the second annual Medical Wellness Congress (MWC). Co-organised ... More

The Greek wellness economy was under the spotlight today at the inaugural Global Wellness Economy conference, hosted in Athens, Greece. The event sought to promote ... More

The team behind the Medical Wellness Congress (MWC) is adding to its online series of interviews with its speakers, sponsors and ambassadors with a brand ... More

Adults living in Italy can cash in on a €200 (£170, US$235) spa voucher thanks to the Italian Government’s recent €53m (£44.9m, US$62.2m) stimulus package ... More

Fitness, medical wellness propositions and spiritual practices and treatments based on local, natural resources are areas with the highest growth potential within wellness tourism. The ... More

The agenda for the 2021 inaugural Medical Wellness Congress has been revealed featuring a line up of industry figures from the spa and medi-wellness industries. ... More

The Czech Republic is being injected with a package worth CZK 1bn (€38.3mn, £34.5mn, US$45.3) to help stimulate its historic health tourism industry, following the ... More

Vladi Kovanic, founder of industry event, Forum HOTel&SPA, has announced the launch of a new medi-wellness event called The Medical Wellness Congress. Kovanic and Health ... More

Industry figure and medical spa and hot spring specialist consultant, Michael Wallace, has co-authored and launched a book called "The Spa Manager's Essential Guide". With ... More

With the hospitality and health tourism sectors being closely linked to spa and wellness, Lisa Starr hops onto three of the latest webinars and picks ... More

The spa industry is showing its strength as a sector that thrives on connections – even when the world is on lockdown, wellness leaders across ... More

The agenda for the Global Wellness Institute’s (GWI) Wellness Symposium at the 2019 Arabian Travel Market (ATM) has been set and will feature experts in ... More

The agenda for the 2018 Arabian Travel Market’s Spa and Wellness Symposium is set, and the Global Wellness Institute-organised event will feature 16 tourism and ... More

During the European Spa Association’s annual Congress in Rome last week, more than 130 members of the spa and health tourism industry from 21 countries ... More

US-based Curry Spa Consulting has joined forces with wellbeing hospitality consultancy brand Resources for Leisure Assets, creating a new division of the company: RLA USA, ... More

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the European Travel Commission (ETC), recently gathered a group of international experts in Budapest with a mission to better ... More

The School of Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality of BKF University of Applied Sciences in Budapest, Hungary, is offering a new educational programme called Thermal Spa ... More

Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia will continue to collaborate and develop spa tourism in the cross-border region following the success of a project undertaken throughout 2014 to ... More

A working group has been set up by the Serbian government to draw up possible solutions to problems faced by spa resorts and healthcare centres, ... More

One of Romania’s prime natural healing facilities – the Techirghiol Spa and Sanitorium mud-bathing facility (SBRT) – is in danger of decay due to environmental ... More

A rapidly ageing Chinese society could be a new growth engine for health tourism in China, experts said at an international forum last week. Globally, ... More

Health, wellness, spa and thermal are among twelve selected niches that Argentina’s tourism organisation Inprotur is looking to highlight as part of its Argentina Authentic ... More

The Indian Institute of Spa Management and Research (IISRM), working in conjunction with Kerala State Women’s Development Corporation (KSWDC), are opening joint courses to effectively ... More

Spain is aiming to capitalise on the health tourism market and a number of organisations have joined forces to make the country a world leader ... More

The European Spas Association (ESPA) has published a book of quality standards for medical spas and wellness providers. The 181-page book in English and German ... More