Diversity and Interconnection: Spas, Health and Wellness Tourism

Health, spa’s, hydrotherapy, tourism, welfare and economic interests become deeply intertwined components. This interconnection is looking for an intense answer to the ills of concern to today’s humans. We emphasize that, in a context where we extremely value health, beyond traditional diseases, we found that have been emerging new diseases and perceptions about them, especially those who are designated as civilization diseases. One of the most notorious problems was depression. This type associated with new dilemmas, which affect individuals in nowadays societies, always in search of more welfare, when human aspirations have no boundaries, diseases assume facets that are not always easy to identify. The person who as depression is, in a way, strongly subject to medication when is bad feeling. But have been many other alternatives arise. Several situations call for new social restructuring forms and styles of life, but also cover other environments and cultures capable to provide access to more time and leisure, which is reflected by behavioral changes and appellative alternative medicines. It is in these situations that the phenomena of Hydrotherapy/SPA’s and tourism, coming from times of yore, with its entire range of activities, have achieved great strength, also appearing as an answer to these well-being matters. These reflective perspectives are issues that we propose to study in this research, with an emphasis on their interconnections.