Annual congress 2010

15th ESPA congress in Băile Felix (RO) was a full success!  The 15th congress of the ESPA, held from the 4th to the 7th of May 2010 in the biggest spa of Romania, Băile Felix in the western part of the country was a full success. During the three congress days more than 100 participants from 15 different European countries discussed about the actual situation of the spas and the future perspectives. In the focus stood the USP of the spas – the natural remedies of the soil, the sea and the climate as well as the prevention for the people in the European Union. For the 1st time the EU commission took the opportunity to use this event for their meeting of the Calypso group, which is responsible for the social tourism within the EU.
 
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Opening session of the 15th annual congress of the ESPA on the 5th of May in Baile Felix, Romania from the left: Joachim Lieber, ESPA Secretary General; Dr. Sigrun Lang, ESPA President; Nicu Radulescu, President OPTBR; Sorin Muntaneu, Secretary of State, Minstry for Tourism and regional Development; Gavrila Ghilea, Govenor, County of Bihor.
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 An attentive audience during the 15th ESPA congress
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 ESPA vice president Nicasio Perez Menzel (E) and ESPA auditor João Pinto Barbosa (P) from the right during the Calypso meeting of the EU Commission in Băile Felix.
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Mr. Francesco Ianniello (left), EU-Commission, Head of the Tourism Unit thanks ESPA President Dr. Sigrun Lang for the successful work during the congress and the Calypso conference; on the right Joachim Lieber, ESPA Secretary General.

The lectures of the congress you can find here :

PDF : 1. Opening Speech ESPA President Dr. Sigrun Lang _D_ Bai.pdf
PDF : 2. Octavion Arsene (RO) Presentation of Romanian Spas.pdf
PDF : 3. Siegfried Scholz (D) Infrastrukturentwicklung EMB.pdf
PDF : 4. Prof. Zeki Karagülle (TR) The natural remedies.pdf
PDF : 5. Asa Brynjolfsdottir (IS) Blue lagoon Iceland.pdf
PDF : 6. Stella Salden (NL) Baby Boomer and senior consumers.pdf
PDF : 7. Marlies Sobczak (NL) ESPA Academy.pdf
PDF : 8. Dr. Peter Kruizinga (NL) Vitality & Tourism Management.pdf
PDF : 9. Dr. von Storch (D) Presentation ESPA Academy.pdf
PDF : 10. Joachim Lieber (D) Strategy of European spa tourism.pdf
PDF : 11. Kurt von Storch (D) International data base.pdf
PDF : 12. Dr. Tanya Angelova (BG) PREVENTION and OVERWEIGHT
PDF : 13. Reinhard Petry (D) project presentation.pdf
PDF : 14. Dr. Janka Zalesakova (SK) Prevention.pdf
PDF : 15. Dr. Suzanna Pretorian (RO) Sitting disease.pdf
PDF : 16. Emma Gonzales (E) Termatalia 2010.pdf
PDF : 17. Presentation of the 16th ESPA Congress 2011 in Turkey.pdf

 

Annual congress 2009
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ESPA-President Dr. Sigrun Lang and the Quality Manager of the ESPA Dr. Kurt von Storch hand out the EUROPESPAmed certificate to the General Manager of the Royal Residence in Birštonas, Mr. Vaclovas Kontrauskas,
as the first facility in Lithuania.
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The congress participants listen attentive to the lectures during the 14th annual congress of the ESPA.
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ESPA Secretary General Joachim Lieber during the presentation of the delegations: ESPA treasurer Patrick Duruz from Switzerland gets his national flag.
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The opening panel from left to right: Gunnlaugur Jonsson, 1. ESPA Vice-President, Joachim Lieber, ESPA Secretary General, Nijolè Dirginčienè, Mayor of Birštonas, Antanas Serafinas Zenkevicius, President of Lithuanian Resort Association and ESPA-President Dr. Sigrun Lang.

 

The following lectures can be requested in the ESPA office in Brussels:

Congress Part I: Quality, Standards, Certification
Quality aspects in medical spas,
Dr. Janka Zalesakova, ESPA Vice President, Bratislava (SK)

Differences between pharmaceutics, medicinal products and
natural remedies in spas
Herbert Renn, Academy of Balneology and Climatology, Freiburg (D)

What brings the future? Results of the ISO working group “Spa Services”
Nicasio Perez Menzel, ANBAL, Madrid (E)

Spa service certification (standardization) activities in Lithuania.
Assoc.prof. Aida Macerinskiene, Institute of Tourism Development, VU (LT)

Congress, Part II:
Funding of spa treatments in the UK health system
Stephen Gordon, General Secretary of the European Council for Classical
Homeopathy, Kenninghall, UK

Mineral Water , Kneipp- and Peloid - Spas
Presentations by:
Gunter Sauer, Bad Kissingen (D) for Mineral Spas
Alexander von Hohenegg, Bad Wörishofen (D) for Kneipp Spas
August Großmann, Bad Senkelteich (D) for Peloid Spas

Congress, Part III:
Marketing/Management

Spa and wellness offers from the point of view of a tour-operator
Claudia Wagner, CEO FIT-Reisen, Frankfurt am Main (D)

New opportunities for the Spa and Wellness Industry
Sujith Ravindran, Vital People Group NV, Amsterdam (NL)


Future in energy management: cost-optimization in thermal spas
Harald Kannewischer, Zug (CH)

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 02 June 2010 )