THE GRUPO EUROPA TRAVELS TO HUNGARY

A delegation of Grupo Europa, important association of spanish travel agencies, is moving to Hungary in order to know the city of Budapest and its royal spas and to go over the thermal-tourist circuit of the Healthy Route through the Western Trans-Danube, an innovative tourist offer, across this zone which is the greennest one in the magyar country.

Due to the new tendencies of vacations of health and the incorporation of Hungary as a member of the EU, the magyar country has reach an excellent position as tourist destination of well-being. The specialists of the Turism of Health and European Thermalism consider the Healthy Routes the most interesting experiences.

The group of travel agencies has shown interest in the itinerary of the Healthy Routes as an innovative tourist proposal, presented by the National Office of Tourism of Hungary in Spain, under the topic "A Healthy Tourism."

For this reason, from the 18th to the 24th of May, they will carry out a journey across this western part of the country, bordering with Slovakia, Austria, Slovenia and Croacia and extending from Fertó Lake that is part of the National Park Fertó-Hansag, to the Balatón Lake, consided as the "sea of Hungary" and the biggest one of central and western Europe.

The region of the Western Trans-Danube, one of the tourist areas where the art, culture and nature are combined in a almost perfect way, is also the richest one in thermal patrimony.

For this reason the representatives of Grupo Europa will visit the emblemátic SPA cities of Gyór, Bürk, Sárvár and Héviz the "city of the water" with the biggest thermal lake in Europe.

THE Wellness

During the tourist-thermal circuit, the Grupo Europa delegation will have the opportunity to know another of the attractiveness of the Healthy Route: the wellness, hotels of health and well-being integrated in landscapes of indescribable beauty where the water is protagonist.

The Grupo Danubius, will show to the delegation of spanish travel agencies group, an excellent net of wellness hotels that have been incorporated to the healthy itinerary as a tourist offer for relaxing and keep fit, the practice of sports being in contact with the nature.

At the present time Hungary has several important hotel chains and establishments with excellent lodging structures conceived to meet all requirements of a tourism of quality and business. The hungarian hotel net is composed by 816 establishments with 89.871 places, being 33.345 of the total, concentrated in 134 lodgings of the capital, Budapest.

During year 2004, the Office of Tourism of Hungary will continue supporting the promotion of the tourism by means of different programs directed to the tourism and the culture as it was manifested to TERMASWORLD by its director, Mr. József Németh.

"In the Year of the Health( year 2003), we carried out the series Healthy Routes that began with the Thermal Route through Budapest and its Royal Spas, in the 2004 we will promote the second Healthy Route through the Western Trans-Danube.Its itinerary from Budapest toward Héviz, the biggest lake of thermal water in Europe, includes a total of 48 hotels spa with 12.500 places. It is one of the most emblematic tourist circuits through the greennest region in the country and especially for some leisure and health.vacations."

HEALTHY ROUTES

The Route through the Western Trans-Danube, together with the Thermal Route through Budapest and its Royal Spas, become part of the series Healthy Routes, interactive edition designed by GRUPO TERMAS and by BuscaSalud.com in its bet for the healthy tourism.

The Healthy Routes as an initiative in the internet scope and being published by BuscaSalud have been presented in several European congresses. Last year it was accepted as a scientific communication, in the XXXIV Congress of the International Society of Medical Hydrology and Climatology (I.S.M.H.) whose Chairman was Prof. Dr. H. Pratzel, and took place last year in Budapest - Héviz.

The presentation of the Healthy Routes in the Congress of the World Thermalism arises from the interest to find a therapeutic answer to illnesses generated by a constant stressful vortex characteristic of modern civilizations.

The Healthy Routes as innovative tourist product, it is being applied by countries like Argentina that has a great richness of mineral-medicinal waters and an emergent tourist potential in the whole thermal corridor of the Uruguay.

More information : www.hungriaturismo.com

TERMAS WORLD AGENCY