The Spa Congress took place at the HELEXPO International
Conference Centre, Thessaloniki I. Vellidis Congress Centre, Friday November
17, 2006. The congress was
part of Philoxenia Spa, a new separate entity
within Philoxenia,
the International Travel and Tourism exhibition
based in Thessaloniki, Greece. The Congress
aimed at both Greek and foreign participants
from the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean.
The scope of the congress was
to inform professionals on the status quo and
opportunities of the spa market and the opportunities
it offers.
Program
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| 9.30 - 10.00 |
Registration |
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| 10.00 -
10.20 |
Opening
- welcome |
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| 10.20 -
12.00 |
World trends
in Spa Market |
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| 10.20
- 10.40 |
Spa
& thalassotherapy: the big unknown of
hotel operations, Leonidas Athanasiou,
Managing Director, IDOLO - Consulting Beauty
& Spa |
| 10.40
- 11.00 |
Spa
destination models, Dr. Dimitris Koutoulas,
Tourism Consultant & Open University
Lecturer |
| 11.00
- 11.20 |
The boom of
Spa hotels in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- winners and losers, Jakob Edinger,
Partner, ETB Edinger Tourism Consultants
and Engineers, Innsbruck & Vienna |
| 11.20
- 11.40 |
New treatments
- new products, Athanasia Krikoni, Training
& Product Manager, Payot Spa - IMPA
SA |
| 11.40 - 12.00 |
Questions -
Discussion |
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| 12.00 - 12.20 |
Break |
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| 12.20 -
14.00 |
Spas as
Investments |
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| 12.20
- 12.40 |
Spa
Economics 101, Dr. Aris Ikkos, General
Manager, JBR Hellas Business Consultants |
| 12.40
- 13.00 |
Project Management
of spa construction, Fotis Kokotos, Project
Manager, Porto Elounda Six Senses Spa |
| 13.00
- 13.20 |
Integrating
a Spa in a Resort, Paris Kounoudis, Manager,
Porto Carras Spa |
| 13.20
- 13.40 |
Modern trends
in spa design - peculiarities in the Greek
environment, Ivy Nanopoulou, Architect,
Thymio Papayiannis & Partners |
| 13.40
- 14.00 |
Questions -
Discussion |
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| 14.00 - 15.00 |
Cocktail |
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| 15.00
- 16.20 |
Specialist
- Niche Markets |
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| 15.00
- 15.20 |
Spa Cruises, Andreas Stylianopoulos, Vice President,
Navigator (Royal Caribbean International
& Celebrity Cruises) |
| 15.20
- 15.40 |
The evolution
and future of the Day Spa, Kyriakos Parpas,
Chairman of City Spa Group of Companies |
| 15.40
- 16.00 |
Health Tourism
Clustering and Integration, Dr. Constantine
Constantinides, healthCare cybernetics |
| 16.00
- 16.20 |
Questions -
Discussion |
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| 16.20 - 16.30 |
Conclusions
- Closing, Dr. Aris Ikkos, General Manager,
JBR Hellas Business Consultants |
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Conference
chairman: Dr. Aris Ikkos |
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Director, JBR
Hellas Business Consultants |
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The presentations of the congress can be dowloaded here: Presentations (zip file, 3.8MB)
Coordination - Organisation: GBR Consulting.
The Workshop Chair will be taken
by Dr.
Aris Ikkos, General Manager of GBR Consulting.
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