Destination spa

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A destination spa or health resort is a

Some destination spas offer an all-inclusive program that includes facilitated fitness classes, healthy cuisine, educational classes and seminars, as well as similar to a beauty salon or a day spa. Guests reside and participate in the program at a destination spa instead of just visiting for a treatment or pure vacation. Some destination spas are in tropical locations or in spa towns.

Destination spas have been in use for a considerable time, and some are no longer used but are rather preserved as elements of earlier history; for example, Gilroy Yamato Hot Springs in California is such a historically used spa whose peak patronage occurred in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Resort spas are generally located in resorts, and offer similar services via rooms with services, meals, body treatments, and fitness a la carte.

Typical medical services offered at destination spas include:

• Balneotherapy
• Electrology
• Facial
• Physical fitness
• Ionithermie
• Massage
• Manicure
• Pedicure

Medical spas provide treatments and revalidation therapies paid back by the national health insurance, have to comply to the ISO 21426:2018 standard on tourism and related service requirements for medical spas^[1] and have a medical doctor on site who supervises all the treatments.

The European Spas Association represents medical spas, health resorts, and regional spa associations in 19 European countries.^[2]

It is common for elderly people to take every year a one-week treatment in medical public spas, which offer treatments for patients with syndrome diseases such as

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Spas.

• International Spa Association
• The European Federation of Medical Spas

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