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SPA & HEALTH Conference Programme

9.30 – 10.00      Arrival and visitors registration

10.00 – 10.15    Official opening ceremony of SPA & HEALTH Conference 

10.15 – 10.30    Welcoming word of the SPA & HEALTH conference moderator: Mr.Sergei Spilko, Russian Union of Tourism Industry, President

10.30 – 11.00    Trends, facts and figures about the luxurious spa/leisure industry

Speaker: Petra Wiedmann, PW Consulting International, Managing Director, Germany

11.00 – 11.30     Medical Anti-Aging of the future…It’s HERE NOW!

Speaker: Dr.Sergei Uretzki, Medical Doctor and Anti-Aging Specialist, Germany

Co-presenter: Michael Polakov, Consultant in International Healthcare Planning, USA/Europe

11.30 – 12.00    Coffee break

12.00 – 12.30    Quality Seal “Best Health Austria” – Austria on the way to become health destination № 1 in Europe

                        Speaker: Christopher Gruber, Best Health Austria, Managing Director, Austria

12.30 – 13.00     Philippines’ “Islands of Wellness”… A Holistic Experience 

Speaker: Marjorie P. Lopingco BHY Corporation, President, Philippines

13.00 – 13.30    How to create and manage your medical SPA

Speaker: Dr.Pakpilai Thavisin, S Medical SPA, President, Thailand

13.30 – 14.10    Lunch

14.10 – 14.40    SPA tourism: yesterday, today and tomorrow

Speaker: Mihail Kochiashvili, NOU SPA Technologies and Management, Managing Director,

Russia; Co-presenter: Aleksey Karelov, Lik-Voyage, Managing Director, Russia

14.40 – 15.10    SPA marketing – challenges, strategies and techniques. Case study from Slovakia

Speaker: Artur Bobovnicky, Innovative Management Partner Consulting (IMP), Slovakia

15.10-15.40       Elements of creating a medically enhanced luxury SPA…

Speaker: Michael Polakov, Consultant in International Healthcare Planning, USA/Europe

                        Co-presenter: Dr.Sergei Uretzki, Medical Doctor and Anti-Aging Specialist, Germany

15.40 – 16.10    The structure of the health tourism industry in Catalonia: tradition and contemporariness

Speaker: Kristina Ionitskaya, Turisme de Catalunya in CIS and Eastern Europe, Director of the office in Moscow

16.10 – 16.40    Discussion and questions

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