Health-improving tourism
Health tourism by importanceis, perhaps, one of the main, because it is based not on pastime, but care of the basic life value - human health. Throughout the world, because of accelerated urbanization, people are experiencing a deterioration in the life-support systems and a decrease in the functionality of the body, the emergence of dangerous diseases.
In the body, fatigue accumulates - mentaland physical, that's why today the question of a healthy lifestyle is so urgent everywhere. Very many seek to maintain a normal physical form, while not forgetting about spiritual enrichment.
That is why health tourism in allcountries are so rapidly developing today. Literally over the last ten years, the number of people combining their rest with therapy has increased by 10% on our planet.
Resort health as a therapeutic holiday there is stillthe times of the ancient Greeks, who, in order to restore their health, went to Epidaurus - in the sanctuary of the healer Asclepius, where gymnastics schools were built for them - paleastres, baths and hotels. Even in the Roman Empire, treated with mineral waters, as evidenced by the ruins of buildings in many of the now popular European resorts.
Health tourism as a speciesrecreation has many distinctive features. First, the minimum period of stay at the resort should be about three weeks, only in this way it is possible to achieve a tangible effect. Secondly, the price for staying at the resort is much higher than in an ordinary tourist center.
And although today this kind of tourismdevelops relatively cheap tours, but most vacationers are wealthy clients who instead of the standard set of medical services are guided by individual programs for therapy. Another special feature that distinguishes health-improving tourism is the age qualification of vacationers, who used to tend to the older generation. However, recently this market is undergoing changes: an ever wider range of consumers, including corporate tours, are visited by multifunctional health centers.
Health-improving rest pursuesthe following goals: to create truly comfortable conditions for therapy, recovery and recovery of the human body. In doing so, he uses all his resources: ballroom, climatic, peloid, phyto-, ayro-, thalasso, speleotherapy, etc.
Health tourism in Russia takesits origin from the North Caucasus. It was here in the 19th century in Zheleznovodsk, Pyatigorsk, Essentuki that the first balneological resorts were opened, and then climatic in Sochi, Yalta, Evpatoria and other regions of the Crimean Black Sea coast began to form.
Today the most popular Russian resortsare the mud and climatic resort of Anapa, balneological sanatoriums of Arshan in Buryatia, Belokurikha of the Altai Territory, Darasun in the Chita region, the resort group "Mineral Caucasian Waters" - Kislovodsk, Gelendzhik, Pyatigorsk, Essentuki, Zheleznovodsk, as well as the climatic balneo- Svetlogorsk, Zelenogorsk, Otradnoye, Kuldur, Nalchik, Paratunka, Adler, Dagomys, Host, etc.
Development of tourism health and medicalcertain natural conditions contribute to the direction, for example, the availability of such resources that are able to provide an effective combination of recreation and restoring the health and working capacity of people, as well as such factors that positively affect the inner, psychological world of a person.
