We were received by the Minister of Science, Research and Innovation of the Czech Republic

On 29 April 2025 we participated in the cross-border meeting of tourist information centres of the EUREGIO EGRENSIS region, which took place in the Chopin House in Mariánské Lázně. The Institute of Spa and Balneology was represented by RNDr. Patricia Hloušková, Ph.D., who gave an expert lecture on "The future of spa medicine: research, objectification and innovation in ILaB". In her presentation, we presented the interconnection [...]

To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, our colleague Ing. Jana Walterová, Ph.D., accepted an invitation to the Czech Radio Karlovy Vary studio. In the interview, she discussed not only the representation of women in research in the field of spa medicine and balneology, but also what science in this field looks like in everyday practice.  At the Institute of Spa Medicine and Balneology, we consider […]

How can we measure the socioeconomic impact of spa tourism on regional development? We addressed this question together with a team of researchers from the Faculty of Economics at the University of West Bohemia during an internal workshop held as part of the Spa Research Center project. There is a wealth of publicly available secondary data describing economic development, the labor market situation, demographic trends, developments in tourism, and, for example, the level of […]