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Lifeclass Hotels & Spa with more than 110 year of tradition are unique for their usage of 5 natural curative factors: salt-pans mud – fango, brine – Aqua Madre, coastal climate, sea and thermo-mineral water. They all have local origin and are known for their high concentration of therapeutic elements, diversity and a wide spectrum of their usage for healing locomotion skin, neurologic and respiratory organ diseases and with gynecological problems. They help us also with tiredness, stress and sleeping problems. In Secovlje salt pans not far away from Portoroz, Piran salt is produced according to an almost 700-year-old tradition and only...

  Host of the 10th SPA-CE workshop is Lifeclass Hotels & Spa Portoroz. Although most of the Slovenian Spas are located in the Eastern part of Slovenia, Portorož was known as a spa site from the 13th century. It is then that the Benedictines from St Lovrenac’s monastery treated rheumatism, obesity and water jams in the body with seawater and brine. They created the first methodology of treatment with therapeutic ingredients from Sečovlje salt-pans. The pilgrims also cured themselves by rubbing mud, sun bathing and then bathing in the salt-pans’ water. Today Lifeclass Hotels & Spa Portorož continues with the tradition of...

Besides healing and easing the pain, the European natural spas have been for a long time also concentrated on wellness and prevention of illnesses. The Central European spa and wellness institutions, that will gather at the 2nd ENSPA conference, have been very well aware of this trend. The conference, the most important regional event, will be in mid November held in Radenci Spa & Health Resort. Experts from leading institutions like FEMTEC, ESPA, ISMH, and GWI, to name a few, will share their knowledge in fields of balneology, thermalism, rehabilitation, hydrotherapy and spa treatments. Slovenian Minister of Economic Development and Technology, Zdravko...

Gladiators and carnival figures enriching personal experience of the SPA-CE tradeshow The town of Ptuj is not only known for the healing thermo-mineral water springs of the Ptuj Thermal Spa, but also for the abundant history and culture. SPA-CE tradeshow's hosted buyers, for example, have an opportunity to be pulled into two unique stories that lead into a different world and time. Firstly, the oldest Slovenian town still offers a possibility to meet some of the residents from 2000 years ago when Ptuj was a flourishing Roman town called Petovio. Local Association for Roman History and Culture organises gatherings of Roman...

SPA-CE Trade show that was first held in 2009, is becoming an European junction for all professionals working in the spa and wellness tourism.  5 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND SPA-CE AS A HOSTED BUYER • SPA-CE = MAKING BUSINESS IN A PERSONAL WAY Are you tired of crowded fairs? SPA-CE is a boutique trade-show offering a different experience. Face-to-face business development is acknowledged as being the most successful form of selling and building a personal and direct relationship with exhibitors. SPA-CE is the trade show that emphasizes the importance of personal contact. The core of the show are pre-scheduled meetings between...

The Slovenian Spas Association has been for 60 years uniting 15 natural and thermal spas, acting under a common name "Slovenian Natural Spas". Intertwining natural remedies with scientific approach The Slovenian Spas Association acts as a strategically and operationally oriented tourism marketing organization and implements in an effective way the business interests of their members and health tourism product in the Slovenian Spas as a whole. A modern, flexible and dynamic marketing organization represents the Slovenian Spas as a key partner in promoting their business interests in Slovenia and abroad. The Slovenian natural spas dedicate special attention to new trends and programs to...

What is ENSPA Conference? In today’s world people are becoming more and more aware of the importance of physical and psychic health, in this fast-paced tempo we look for possibilities for regeneration. The European Natural Spas & Wellness Conference brings special insight into the extensive selection of natural spas across Europe and their healing properties of thermal water. European natural spas have long been more than just places to heal and lessen the pain, but temples of wellness and prevention. Natural spas can offer much more since thermal water and other natural elements have been helping heal for centuries. With the conference...

Beside the One2One business meetings an important part of SPA-CE is fully organized post-event tour taking hosted buyers to selected natural and thermal spas. How better to experience the spa and wellness offer than to experience it first hand? Hosted buyers attending the 9th SPA-CE will have a chance to explore the Rogaška Medical Center, specialized in the treatments with magnesium mineral water, Terme Olimia as a modern and most awarded Slovenian spa resort, Thermana Laško as an epicenter of medical rehabilitation and Terme Dobrna, taking care especially about women health through all stages of their lives. Find out more...

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_single_image image="16145" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]Iztok Altbauer, managing director of Slovenian Spas Association [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_separator type="normal"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Spa and Wellness industry is one of the fastest growing tourism branches, since the awareness and care for one’s wellbeing, balance of mind and body, programs for prevention, selfness or detox programs, are gaining more and more on importance and build the core business of each Spa and Wellness Company.  Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Bulgaria and other...

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