- Wellness
- Tourism Basics – Is Tourism Only to Relieve Stress?
- The potential and possibilities of sports tourism in Hungary
- Tasks of preparing and organizing recreation- and sports events
- Introduction to Health Tourism
- A Contemporary topic
- The notion and sub-categories of health tourism
- Wellness tourism
- Medical tourism
- Specific economic role of health tourism
- Health tourism as the engine of local and regional economies
- Developmental trends in health tourism
- Comprehensive Questions
- Bibliography
- The Emergence of Wellness kulture and a Brief Survey of Its Varieties
- Wellness services, methods for relaxation, alternative physiotherapies
- Water sports: Aqua fitness, water aerobics
- Natural Movement in Water
- Effect of water on children
- The characteristics of water
- Methodology of adapting children to water
- 5 basic exercises to adapt children to water
- Organization of water adaptation
- Demonstration of the most important phases of adapting children to water
- The use of physical education games in swim teaching
- Bibliography
- The importance of resorts in Hungary’s health tourism
- In the attraction of health resorts
- Medicinal and thermal baths, medicinal gas baths
- Climatic resorts in Hungary
- Medical caves
- Socio-economic significance of Hungary’s health resorts
- Bibliography
Laconium
In the past they were circular rooms covered with marble and in the middle there was a charcoal heater. Bathers sat around it and the burning charcoal, giving out infrared light in a zone of 1.400 nm, -heated up their bodies. Today the radiators are located on the walls, too, and there are sensors are on them, so, the heater begins to work when the bathers sit down. The room has a ceramic cover, the temperature of the air is 60 C and the relative humidity is only 5-20%.
Its use improves blood circulation, intensifies the removal of body waste and strengthens the immune system. Perspiration also helps to relieve stress. Blood pressure and heart beat become regular, body and mind relax. 15-20 minute stay is recommended.
After using these previously described hot baths the next step is the cooling of the body. The following methods have been used to achieve this aim.