Newsletter press on with the visit to the Mud baths of Πικρολιμνης Kilkis 26.7.2016

Step members of the board.P. the pan-Hellenic association of Thermal Springs….
and spas to Greece with the President, Anestis Anastasiadis, Vice-president and responsible of press office for Achilles Μεταλούλη, the special Secretary Makis Κυφοκέρη and the responsible projection Nico Matthew.
Initially, the delegation toured the facilities of the Bathroom Πικρολίμνης the responsible employee and knowledgeable on the subject of mud baths. This business is a work of the deceased before 4 months mr. Angelakis where the more year of his life dedicated to the idea that in this Lake the area could operate a complex on the healing properties of the baths and the mud baths.
Then the members of the board.P. met in the offices of the director mr. Kostas Venetaki to issues of general therapeutic tourism in Greece and how they operate in the balkan and European spa towns. In addition to involved with functional problems of the spas on Doctors, paramedical staff etc.
Was a brief discussion on the issue of the recognition of spas and if the responsibility I had to the has the some level of government or the respective municipality or an individual who is responsible for each day spa.
The Main Βενετάκης, who is fighting a battle for the survival of the enterprise, told us that it can today to prepare a dossier for the identification as well as the amount required is at least 30,000 €.
There was also a reason for completeness in terms of Bathers and he said to us that today it is about 70%. In addition it has reminded us that when there was the bath allowance, which today is only 150 euro, there were every day more than 700 people, while today stressed that the situation is much worse, and the main concern is survival, something that unfortunately happens in many spa towns of our country. As reported, the program for five wash OGA is not interested in a hotel because it gives only 23 euro or 18 euro subsidy for each bather.
The members of the panhellenic association highlighted that it will contribute as much as they can to the problems of the above spa town and promised to make another visit to the above town with the new proposals. Additionally informed that team of the association will continue its visits to other spa towns, as in Lemnos, Island, Traianoupoli and Samothraki
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