Health Tourism Management: Case Study in Hua Hin with Ontology and Parallel and Cloud Computing

Hua Hin offers a laid back and friendly seaside atmosphere with good infrastructure, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies and international schools. Being the Royal beach resort, cabarets, discos, and other nightspots are more regulated than normal and rather limited,which some may find refreshing. Hua Hin has a stunning beach, lovely waterfalls, lush limestone mountains and plenty of leisure activities. What better place to rejuvenate than at an internationally renowned spa in a great location? Whether undergoing spa treatment, dentistry or medical services in Hua Hin, it is the perfect place for those who love a more sedate holiday style.

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Health Tourism

According to The World Health Organization, health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely absence of disease. For health tourism, there are several definitions. According to Dr Steve Hajioff, Director, PHAST, University of Mauritius.

Planned use of medical services away from home: Health Tourism (Medical Tourism) is the travel to other nations or territories for the purpose of procurement of medical services and other health interventions.

Travelling for the purposes of improvement and/or maintenance of health.

Health tourism [uncountable] 1. Travelling to a foreign country in order to receive cheap or free medical treatment - used to show disapproval 2. Having a holiday that involves taking part in sports activities or doing things such as having beauty treatments

Health tourists are person who travelling for the above purpose.

In Thailand, health tourism is divided by purposed in two kinds , .
1. Health healing: it is the travel whose purpose is to restore health, curing diseases, including cosmetic surgery, dental services, etc. This case we call medical tourism.
2. Health promotion: it is the travel whose purpose is to increase health strength in the tourist attraction area. The activity example is spa, aroma therapy, Thai herb sauna/stream, body massage etc. The supplementary service may be body detoxi meditation, yoga, nutrition consulting etc. This case is a called altogether as wellness tourism. Note that in some text, it divides into spa and wellness tourism.
3. However, in this category, the spa business is the major business in the wellness tourism in Thailand which is included by the term “health business” according to the Act of legislation of Public Health Ministry (B.E. 2509).

According to the Act of legislation (B.E. 2509) of Public Health Ministry, the business means the place for health or beauty maintenance. The health business is categorized as
1. Spa business for health. It is the business for massaging and uses water for treatment. It can also have facility such as nutrition suggestion, herb sauna and stream, meditation, yoga and alternative medicine,
2. Massage business for health. The business focuses on massaging for health, for relaxing according to massage science and does not provide the bathing area,
3. Massage business for beauty. The business is such as hair salon or beauty salon, It contains the massage type according to the massage science which can increase beauty and does not provide bathing area.

Thus, in Hua-Hin district, the spa business is four kinds.
1. Hotel and resort spa. It is the spa business in the hotel. The main business is the hotel and resort while spa business is a facility in the hotel.
2. Destination spa. It is the spa business which provides packages for tourists who intends to take a spa course in there. The tourist must attend a course which may require 2 or more night stays at the resort. The famous spa in Thailand of this kind is Chivasom (http://www.chivasom.com) which is located in Hua-Hin district.
3. Day spa. It is a kind of spa which provides various services . The treatment or service can be finished in one day. It may not be a hotel or resort. On the contrary, the hotel or resort can be a day spa.
4. Medical spa. It is the facility between medical clinic and day spa. It must be operated under a qualified medical team . It is like a clinic or hospital. It has doctors in many related fields including cosmetic surgery, nutrition consultant, etc. In Hua-Hin district, we consider hospitals and clinics.

AiChi is a water exercise and relaxation program that has been created to help aquatic practitioners and students enjoy the water in a flowing yet powerful progression. Aquatic exercise instructors, personal trainers, and aquatic therapy and rehabilitation practitioners will find the AiChi workshop beneficial for them and their clients. It is an efficient exercise program that increases oxygen and caloric consumption simply with correct form and positioning in the water. It is a perfect relaxation technique for highly stressed, over-challenged clients, and it is ideal for creating improved range of motion and mobility. AiChi, created by combining Tai-Chi concepts with Shiatsu and Watsu techniques, is performed standing in shoulder depth water using a combination of deep breathing and slow, broad movements of the arms, legs, and torso. Lecture and Pool.

The favorite yoga, Pilates, and tai chi exercises can be done in the water or join a class to learn these popular mind/body movements. Some exercises offer multiple benefits. For example, the yoga "warrior" position performed in waist-high water provides relaxation, relieves stiffness in the waist and rib areas, stretches the entire body, and strengthens arms and legs. Water's support and the fluid movements of these exercises make them ideal during pregnancy and rehabilitation.

The massage is usually performed with the help of two Ayurvedic therapists and a mixture of heated organic oils as suggested by the Ayurvedic system. A good Ayurvedic massage ensures an optimum blood circulation which helps your body to grow properly. These massages are a great way to eliminate toxins from the body. These techniques are extremely relaxing and help your both physically and psychologically. An Ayurvedic massage is ideal to obtain relief from any stress or emotional tension by helping you relax.

A caldarium (also called a calidarium, cella caldaria or cella coctilium) was a room with a hot plunge bath, used in a Roman bath complex. This was a very hot and steamy room heated by a hypocaust, an underfloor heating system. This was the hottest room in the regular sequence of bathing rooms; after the caldarium, bathers would progress back through the tepidarium to the frigidarium. In the caldarium, there would be a bath (alveus, piscina calida or solium) of hot water sunk into the floor and there was sometimes even a laconicum—a hot, dry area for inducing sweating.

Chromotherapy, sometimes called color therapy, colorology or cromatherapy, is a alternative medicine method. Chromotherapists claim to be able to use light in the form of color to balance "energy" lacking from a person's body, whether it be on physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental levels. Research has shown it is ineffective.

The local or general use of low temperatures in medical therapy. Cryotherapy is used to treat a variety of benign and malignant lesions. Its goal is to decrease cellular metabolism, increase cellular survival, decrease inflammation, decrease pain and spasm, promote vasoconstriction, and when using extreme temperatures, to destroy cells by crystallizing the cytosol.

Deep water provides a no-impact workout and has long been associated with rehabilitation, but it's also a great place to get a high-intensity athletic workout while preventing overuse injuries. Using flotation belts, you can jog, run, do sit-ups, and more.

The Finnish sauna (pronounced 'Sow-na') is a substantial part of Finnish culture. There are five million inhabitants and over two million saunas in Finland - an average of one per household.

The favorite yoga, Pilates, and tai chi exercises can be done in the water or joiined to learn these popular mind/body movements. Some exercises offer multiple benefits. For example, the yoga "warrior" position performed in waist-high water provides relaxation, relieves stiffness in the waist and rib areas, stretches the entire body, and strengthens arms and legs. Water's support and the fluid movements of these exercises make them ideal during pregnancy and rehabilitation.

Heated, smooth stones are placed on certain points on the body to warm and loosen tight muscles and balance energy centers in the body. A stone massage can use cold or water-heated stones to apply pressure and heat to the body. Stones coated in oil can also be used by the therapist delivering various massaging strokes. The hot stones used are commonly Basalt stones (or lava rocks) which over time have become extremely polished and smooth. As the stones are placed along the recipient's back, they help to retain heat which then deeply penetrates into the muscles, releasing tension.

The oldest and most traditional Thai resort combines the attractions of a modern holiday destination with the charm and fascination of a still active fishing port. And while most other Thai holiday destinations cater mainly to foreign tourists, Hua Hin is a holiday resort for foreigners and Thais. Besides it's great 5 mile long beach Hua Hin provides the highest density of world class golf courses anywhere in Thailand while it's yet virtually undiscovered as an international Golf destination. Green-fees and other costs are currently among the lowest in the world while course maintenance and services are superb. Hua Hin (Thai: หัวหิน, IPA: [hǔə hǐn]) is a beach resort town in Thailand, in the northern part of the Malay Peninsula, some 200 km south of Bangkok. It has a population of 84,883 in an area of 911 km², and is one of eight districts (amphoe) of Prachuap Khiri Khan Province. Hua Hin is closely associated with the Thai royalty. Merely 25 kilometres apart, Hua Hin in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province enjoys a wealth of satellite attractions; prominent among them are national parks and historical cities.

Enjoy the exotic Thai way to relax your body and soul at the Imperial Spa. Be charmed by the touch of Imperial Massage, the unique aromas of the essential oils and beautiful services of our professional staff. Imperial Spa has developed a concept of Thai traditional soothing signature treatments, where guests can enjoy all of the pleasures and ambience of Imperial Spa. This blended with international standard therapies ensures you will have an Imperial Experience. Imperial Spas can be found in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Hua Hin and Samui Island.

The term Lulur refers to the Javanese term meaning "to coat the skin". It was traditionally given to young Indonesian women who were preparing to wed. The Lulur treatment are at many of the spas in Malaysia and Indonesia. The treatment includes three parts beginning with a relaxing aromatic massage, followed by an exfoliating body scrub and finishing with a fragrant floral bath. There are some variations in the recipe between different spas, but in general the treatment is the similar with the same end results-soft smooth and pampered skin.

Laconicum (i.e. Spartan, sc. balneum, bath), the dry sweating room of the Roman thermae, contiguous to the caldarium or hot room. The name was given to it as being the only form of warm bath that the Spartans admitted. The laconicum was usually a circular room with niches in the axes of the diagonals and was covered by a conical roof with a circular opening at the top, according to Vitruvius (v.10), from which a brazen shield is suspended by chains, capable of being so lowered and raised as to regulate the temperature. The walls of the laconicum were plastered with marble stucco and painted blue with gold stars.

Lomilomi is the word used today to mean massage therapist or Hawaiian massage."In the Hawaiian language, the word used traditionally, called lomi, means to rub, knead, press, squeeze, massage; to work in and out, as the claws of a contented cat.

Manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) is a type of gentle massage which is intended to encourage the natural drainage of the lymph from the tissues space body. The lymph system depends on intrinsic contractions of the smooth muscle cells in the walls of lymph vessels (peristalsis) and the movement of skeletal muscles to propel lymph through the vessels to lymph nodes and then beyond the lymph nodes to the lymph ducts which return lymph to the cardiovascular system. Manual lymph drainage uses a specific amount of pressure (less than 9 ounces per square inch) and rhythmic circular movements to stimulate lymph flow.

Oxygen therapy is the administration of oxygen as a medical intervention, which can be for a variety of purposes in both chronic and acute patient care. Oxygen is essential for cell metabolism, and in turn, tissue oxygenation is essential for all normal physiological functions.

Massage therapists who are certified in pregnancy massage know the proper way to position and support the woman's body during the massage, and how to modify techniques.

Sensual massage is a way to build intimacy and closeness with your partner. The idea behind sensual massage is that you are giving pleasure through touch to your partner. One person is the giver and one person is the recipient.

Traditional, out-of-water strength training may use free weights, an elastic resistance band or a cable machine. When practiced in water, though, there are added benefits. While the resistance could still be from weights, bands or other equipment.