BALNEOLOGY
Hotel "Velina" - Velingrad, Bulgaria - pool with mineral water
You have the posibility to fill your pool with cure water? Use it! Water is the oldest medicine against many diseases - both physical and mental. But the most widespread disease in our time is the stress caused by rapid turnover, in which we live.
If you can fill your swimming pool with mineral or sea water, it will becomes medical. You will have to reconcile with the higher waste of water, with poorer filtration and difficulties with disinfection /only in mineral water/, but instead of that you will get the pleasure of a friendly caress of healing non-chlorinated water.
This spa pool can be very important if you invest in the Spa Hotel, which is near to a healing water spring. The company has built several such pools in some of the famous resorts with thermal waters - Velingrad, Varshets, Pavel Banya, Sandanski .......
Balneopools are also called pools with plain water, but with done hydromassage part in them. By the flow of water or water and air together, it provides a very effective full body massage, and problem areas on it. If the body stands in a proper position, and there is hand shlauh massage, its effectiveness will be increased in times.
You will receive a detailed consultation during projecting with us your balneo-pool and its technical specificities according it its purpose.
Aquatherapy rather means healthy nature activities, involving movement. They use the warming effect of the water, relaxment of the joints because of the reduced weight of the practitioner, without the use of chemical enrichment of the water.
Hydrotherapy
In hydrotherapy, the man was subjected to various medical, healthy or antistress procedures, without necessarily actively movements. This chemical effect of water is a major aspect, the objective of these treatments is mainly splice favorable effects on the body - chemicals, vibration, magnetic fields, sound waves, heat and variety of massage movements.
It is important to say that the word watertherapy is a word-collection of different therapies, while the old Bulgarian word "Balneology" is science for the application of different therapies.
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„Developing wellness, spa and balneology in the tourist industry for increased value and fast ROI“ was the topic of Nola 7 Ltd. presentation during the II Serbian Spa Congress with International participation that took place on May 18th - 20th 2010 at Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia.
Organizers of the event were Serbian Spas Association, under the traditional auspices of the Serbian Government and the Serbian Ministry of Economy and Regional Development. The main theme of Congress was resort standards in health tourism and directions for its further development.
Domestic Congress participants were representatives of the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development, the Ministry of Health, the Tourist Organization of Serbia and local tourist organizations, directors of rehabilitation centers and doctors, representatives of spa centers and hotels management and many journalists. There were international participants from Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Hungary.
The development of SPA idea in Bulgaria in line with 17 years of extensive experience of Nola 7 Ltd. was presented from Ms. eng. Aneta Sabeva – Business Development Manager, International Markets and Nola 7's Commercial Director Mr. eng. Alexander Mostrov. According to the presented data Bulgaria could be given as a successful example of tourist industry development. Even today, when all we are facing an economical crisis Bulgaria’s spa tourism sector expects revenue increase this year and is optimistic about its development. Bulgaria is among the top 10 most affordable for the Europeans destinations in the world according to the German-language Yahoo! Travel Magazine. Nola 7 is in the basis of the SPA industry in Bulgaria, as being active player in the SPA culture industry development. Based on its key competences, Nola 7 could realize a very competitive SPA idea, comparing with the very best facilities world wide. According to Nola 7's corporate data between 40-60% of the income in a hospitality facility comes from SPA services. Nola 7 is able to reduce the time period for return of investment (ROI) with 30 % because of the effective operational business model. Nola 7 is offering unique SPA concepts with the main aim to transform the SPA sites into preferred SPA destination.
The SPA industry in Bulgaria was given as a sucessful example also from the Secretary state from Serbian Ministry of economy Prof. dr Goran Petkovic, who presented spa market data for Serbia. The President of the European Health Forum Prof. Guenther Leiner Ph.D. fokused his speach over the nesesery standards in medicine and non-medicine in health resorts. The actual situation and trends for the health tourism were presented during the Congress from the Secretary General of the European Spas Association (ESPA), Mr. Joachim Lieber. He also point out the position of the spas and health resorts on the national and European level.
