Boston Tourism
Travel to Wellness Wellness tourism includes for example spa treatments, different fitness activities and It's about finding balance in one's life. It's about being proactive in discovering new ways to promote a healthier, less stressful lifestyle. Today we can talk about wellness tourism or wellness travel, that is explained as: ...travelling for the primary purpose of achieving, promoting or maintaining maximum health and a sense of well-being.
Boston TourismThis all contributed to bringing (medical) treatment, wellbeing, fitness, spas and tourism closer to each other. Also some institutions offering medical facilities, started to include more "spa", "tourism", and "general wellbeing" to their services. Spreading of spas made it possible to take relaxing trips to foreign countries. While medical tourism enjoyed popularity earlier (travelling to other country in order to find cheaper service, shorter waiting lists, better rehabilitation programmes or plastic surgery), spa tourism started supposedly in 1986, when first spa opened its doors.
Boston TourismGreek pilgrims travelling to meet healing gods and people visiting India for yoga and Ayurveda purposes were most probably the first medical "tourists". Let`s take Greek baths, Roman thermae, Japanese onsen baths, Turkish baths or hammams in the Middle-East, or even Nordic sauna that includes aquatic procedures - those are all ancient and historical methods designed for relaxation, medical treatment, and rejuvenation. But if we take the core of medical, spa, or any other wellness tourism related type of travelling, we can go back to few centuries BC. It's currently emerging, developing and becoming new trend. The concept of wellness tourism as such is considered to be recent phenomenon.
