Health Tourism in Hungary

Health tourism in numbers

• 35 % of the commercial overnights, 49 % of domestic overnights and 24 % of the foreign overnights were

spent is Spa- and Wellness Hotels in Hungary.

• 14 % of foreign visitors came to Hungary with a purpose to heal

• The most important sending countries for spa and wellness hotels are Germany, Russia and Austria

Germany; 27,80%

Russia; 16,10%Austria; 11,20%

Czech Rebuplic; 5,80%

Romania; 3,20%

Poland; 2,10%

Switzerland; 2,20%

Italy; 2,40%

Slovakia; 2,60%

Ukraina; 2,60%

Israel; 1,80%

Germany

Russia

Austria

Czech Rebuplic

Romania

Poland

Switzerland

Italy

Slovakia

Ukraina

Israel

Results in Health tourism in 2012

Number of tourist arrivals Tourist nights

Spa hotels +10,2% +9,6%

Wellness hotels +11,2% +13,4%

Promotion of Health tourism

Brochures

• 6 languages

• German, Russian, English, Czech, Slovak, Romanian

• New image, new photos, „Hungaricum” methods (USP),

market-specific texts

Cross-border cooperations

• European Quartett (Russia, India, USA, China, Taiwan, Latin-America, Japan, Dubai, Australia)

• Spa-Ce • Hungary-Serbia Cross-border Co-operation programme

Specialities include

• Under 80% of Hungary’s territory thermal water can be found

• Europe’s one and only „cavebath” is in Miskolctapolca

• The only thermal lake in the World, in which people are able to swim in every part of the year is the Lake Hévíz

• Budapest is the one and only Spa Capital in the World

• Turkish baths are operating since the XVI. Century

• Bio products, herbs, wine culture, vibrant cultural life

Hungary’s current supplies

• 1 298 spa springs• 385 settlements across Hungary are offering thermal or spa

bath• 14 qualified health resorts• 30 qualified spa resorts (up to more than 10,5k rooms)• 163 wellness hotels (27,3k rooms)• 39 qualified thermal baths• 5 thermal caves• 81 qualified mineral waters, 315 healing water springs• 5 healing mud occurence• 1 mofetta

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