WATER AS AN ANSWER TO WELLNESS AND WELFARE – A PUBLIC SERVICE

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Ana Branca
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Bonito, Álvaro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/4732
• topic: tourism, health/wellness tourism, thermalism,social impact,water

Health, spa’s, hydrotherapy, tourism, welfare and economic interests become deeply intertwined components Several situations call for new social restructuring forms and styles of life, but also cover other environments and cultures capable to provide access to more time and leisure, which is reflected by behavioral changes and appellative alternative medicines. It is in these situations that the phenomena of Hydrotherapy/SPA’s and tourism, coming from times of yore, with its entire range of activities, have achieved great strength, also appearing as an answer to these well-being matters ( Leandro, E. et al, 2014). In 2014, almost half of the customers who have chosen to use the, were aged between 36 and 65 years (25,300/p) and 29% between 16 and 35 years (15,200/p). This type associated with new dilemmas, which affect individuals in nowadays societies, always in search of more welfare, when human aspirations have no boundaries, diseases assume facets that are not always easy to identify (Carvalho,A. et al). This increasing development has a great importance at social level. The Portuguese Spa demand has been growing. The impact of this kind of development in social culture. This research aims to analyse - How this impact call for new social restructuring forms and styles of life, but also cover other environments and cultures capable to provide access to more time and leisure.