Spa-wellness center as part of the hotel facility

Abstract

Over the last decades "wellness spa" industry has experienced a boom around the world. The word "Wellness" has been formed by merging two words: "Well Being" + "fitness", and appeared in the thir-ties of the last century in the United States. The primary objective of this movement is an ancient philosophy , according to which therés no fulfilled life without the assent of the physical and mental, also physical and spiritual. Hotel guests, today more than ever, want higher quality offer for their money. This means that wellness is today a very important criterion by which customers select hotels. For this reason it is necessary to pay great attention to the planning, design and construction of this part of the hotel facility. The subject of this paper is wellness and spa centers as part of the hotel facility. The task is to investigate and analyze elements of this space, to determine spatial areas of wellness center, as well as their relationships and spatial organization, in order to reach the goal-getting useful guidelines for planning quality wellness center. To all of this could be achieved, we must first go back to distant history where dating back the beginnings of wellness.