Halkidiki 2019 – 72nd FEMTEC Congress

Halkidiki 2019 – 72nd FEMTEC Congress

THALASSA, THALASSA: Thalassotherapy and Balneology
a strategic alliance for the health care and economical development

To identify the possible synergy between the two great therapeutic traditions, Thalassotherapy and Thermal Medicine. To propose a common and integrated scientific action plan, both economic and social, for the health care, the welfare and the development of the territories. To evaluate the new scenarios, increasingly real, also due to environmental climate changes related to Health Tourism. These are some of the main aims, themes and objectives that the 72nd Annual Congress of FEMTEC will address.

The challenge will be to reconcile the new global socio-economic-environmental realities with the unique specificity of the hydrotherapy and thalassotherapy tradition, defined by the therapeutic and environmental characteristics of the “genius loci”, and by the concept of patient at the center of care and of “rediscovery of lost body”. And how can we integrate the growing demand for health with infrastructures that enable sustainable development and tourism?

Thermal Medicine and Thalassotherapy will have to change skills and abilities: in 2020 problem-solving will remain the most sought-after soft skill, but critical thinking and creativity will also become important. The current challenges of modern and evolved society can be summarized not only in development, but also in environmental, human and personal sustainability.

Main topics of the Conference

Structure and organization of national and international thermal systems
Strategies and economic-social policies for thermalism
Environment, climate, thermalism and health
The new potential of information technology
Training and research as elements of knowledge and information
Paths of care, health and wellbeing traditional and complementary
Integrated thermal rehabilitation methods
Climate change and economy of the “Health Tourism” – The role of the patient as a user
Exploiting the telemedicine services
Communication, web-marketing and traditional marketing
New technologies and health security
Health Tourism
Hospitality organization
Gastronomy and thermal territories.