Hungary is located in Central Europe and has a population of 10 million people. Its capital and largest city is Budapest. The country has a continental climate and is a member of both the EU and Schengen Area. Hungary has many cultural attractions and festivals throughout the year. It also has a strong focus on health and medical tourism, with many thermal baths and a strategy to develop the medical industry. The document also provides details about the town of Gyula, including its castle, festivals, university and focus on health tourism education through Szent Istvan University.

1. Our home country is
Hungary
10/3/2011

2. General information
Territory: 93,030 km2,
Population: 10 million,
million,
Capital: Budapest,
Budapest,
Climate: continental,
continental,
EU and Schengen member,
member,
Central Europe's largest
fresh water lake (Balaton)
Balaton)
•Fligh time to Budapest:
Rome:
Rome: 1 hours 30 mins
Paris: 2 hours 5 mins
Helsinki: 2 hours 15mins
elsinki: 15mins
London: 2 hours 15 mins
Madrid: 3 hours 10 mins
New York: 9 hours 5 mins

3. Do you know this?
this?

4. Budapest
The Capital of Hungary

5. Pécs and the Turkish Memories
The City of Sopron
Szeged with it’s summer
theatre
Carnival of Flowers in Debrecen
The Castle of
Veszprém

6. The Country of Cultur and Fun
• Pécs: European Capital of Culture 2010
• A country of music: Liszt (200 years
anniversary in 2011), Bartók, Kodály
• Festivals: Sziget, Volt, Balaton Sound,
Hegyalja, SZIN…
• Formula-1 Hungarian Grand Prix
• Traditions and Nature
• Gastronomy, Wines, Pálinka

7. • Hungary is nr. 1 best travel value in
Europe, 3rd in the world* !

8. Medicine: a major element of a new
national economic strategy:
– Health tourism investments based on natural resources
(thermal waters, climate, etc.)
– Complex development of medical industry (geothermic
energy, balneology, pharmaceutical industry, medical
equipments, bio- and nanotechnology, etc.)
– Bio gardening and food processing
– Mineral waters
– Background industry and services (education, construction)

9. Great classic and trendy new hotels
Zara Ramada
Boutique Resort
Hotel Aquaworld
Danubius
Gellért
Hotel
Royal Corinthia Hotel

10. Extraordinary spa venues
Spirit Hotel Spa Resort
Aquaworld Budapest
Danubius
Health
Spa
Resort
Margit-
sziget

11. State-of-the-art
event venues
Lánchíd Palace
IH Event Center
Symbol Budapest
Material Event Center

12. Hospitality Pálinka
Gulash (Pörkölt)
Sausages Onion
Paprika

13. Gyula
• The name of the
town is also men
name but originaly a
title
• Many sightseeings:
sightseeings:
museums, castle,
museums, castle,
bath,
bath, sport
facilities,
facilities, bars and
restaurants
• 10 primary schools,
schools,
5 secondary schools
and 1 university

14. Geographical location

15. Geographical location
• Gyula town lies on the South-Eastern
part of the Hungarian Great Plain. The
town located in 5 km far from the
Romanian border.
• Some natural rivers near to the town,
the Körös Rivers are the rivers of the
cleanest water in Europe.

16. Border crossing
• Romania became an EU member state on
1 January 2007, which made possible
the simplification of administration also
at the border station of Gyula. It
enabled us to visit the neighbouring
country’s towns with any fundamental
personal paper (identity card, passport).
The frontier control continues in
existence, since Romania does not
belong to the Schengen countries.

17. Population
• In Gyula of 32 000 inhabitants, people
of Hungarian, German and Romanian
nationalities have been living together in
peacefulness for long decades.

18. The Castle of Gyula

19. The Castle of Gyula
• This towered, Gothic castle built
between 1403 and 1445 has the best-
preserved Gothic keep and chapel in
Hungary. The building complex includes
the Castle Baths. Theatrical productions
are staged here in summer. The castle
of Gyula is only a brick castle was left
soundly in Central Europe.

20. The Castle of Bath

21. Festivals and events

22. Festivals and events
• Végvári esték (border fortress
evenings)
• August the 20. the holiday of the
foundation of a state
• Gastronomic festivals and competitions
• „Pálinka” festival, musical programs

23. Active tourism
• Excursions
• Water tourism
• Equestrian tourism
• Angling
• Hunting
• Further sport facilities

24. Accommodation
• Hotels (Elizabeth Hotel, Corso Boutique
Hotel) Four star hotels

25. Accommodation
• Pensions
• Private accommodation
• Camp sites
• Youth hostels
• Rure accommodation

26. Szent István University
Gyula

27. Focused on Szent Istvan
University in Gyula
• At the recommendation of the European Council, with
American support, and as an affiliated department of
the Medical School at the University of Debrecen, a
nursing degree programme started in the town of
Gyula in 1993.
• The town has been providing beneficial possibilities
for the health care programmes at the college level in
Pandy Kalman Hospital for decades.

28. Our degree programmes
• Nursing and Health Care basic degree
subject
• Social Worker basic degree subject
• Sanitation Management degree subject
- Health Tourism Management degree
subject
• Sanitation Management degree subject
- Health Insurance degree subject

29. About Health Tourism
• The unique degree programme started
in the town of Gyula in 2006 as one of
the first such programmes in Europe to
train experts in the developing health
industry and salutary tourism for the
integration into a network of various
new services (e.g., holistic medicine,
wellness, fitness, hydrotherapy,
aromatherapy) and the marketing of
these services.

30. So-called Health tourism
• Health tourism is one of the most dynamically
growing lifestyle in the 21st Century.
• Mostly, this sector focuses on the
prevention of physical and mental illnesses.
• Nowadays, health maintenance is very
important – medication and recreation become
one of the most useful business sectors.

31. Health tourism in Hungary
• In Hungary, Szent Istvan University created the
complex network of health tourism. My country rich
of medical water resources may provide a new
development alternative. (Hungary is the fifth richest
country in the world interms of thermal waters and
medicinal waters.)
• In Hungary, the number of thermal bathes and
wellness hotels providing services of high standards
increased remarkably in the past years.
• Most of the hotels have many wonderful beauty and
care services (hairdressers, beautycians, solarium,
pediceur, maniceur, massage).

32. Our subjects
• Law, Psychology, Anatomy and
Physiology, Medicine Latin, Math,
Statistics, Economy, Rural Economy,
Informatics, Geography, Health
Geography, Tourism, Wellness,
Alternative Medicine (e.g. Yoga)
Internal Medicines and so on.

33. Trainings
• So far we have taken part in a
couple of useful trainings in my
country (in Bekescsaba and Matra).
• I had to organise a special program
(Literature Event) two years ago where I met
many interesting people. I heard many
beautiful poems there.

34. Trainings
• As a student in Matra we went hiking with
our classmates and teachers. We visited many
public baths where we got some information
about physiotherapies, saunas (for example
Finnish), massages (such as Swedish), vapour-
and bubble baths.

35. Why is it worth being a student
in Gyula?
• Gyula is one of the most beautiful small towns in Hungary. They
have some famous spas and the high-standard hospital
background.
• The town has many thousand tourist lodgings possibilities from
autumn to the beginning of summer for students to choose a
good place to live.
• There is a wide range of cultural life (Renaissance Carnivals,
festivals, concerts) colourful events for the tourists from spring
to autumn. The pubs and the beauty of the Mediterranean
environment make the town an ideal place for spending youthful
years.
• The atmosphere of the university is familiar, it is not a
´knowledge factory´ education institute.
• The university is well-equipped – you can find everything.
(Electronic teaching centre, fitness-room, a healthy food-
restaurant, library-room, computer-room and more new
facilities.)

36. University`s life
• Szent Istvan University has colourful
student`s life similar to other
universities – such as the Freshmen
balls, so-called Szent Istvan University
`Faculty Days` and Graduation
ceremony.

37. University´s life
Freshmen ball

38. Faculty days
One year ago, we participated in Szent Istvan University
`Faculty Days`(taking pictures of aura, Irisdiagnose,
handwriting analysis, palm reading and tarot card reading, photo
competition and of course eating of delicious food).

40. `If you have a work instead of
a job, every day is holiday.´
Paulo Coelho

41. Literature
•
1. Lajos Köteles – Katalin Rozsnyai: Az egészségturizmus-szervez szak
szakalapítási kérelme. (Foundation application of the health tourism
organizer programme), TSC Institute of Healthcare Studies, Gyula,
2002
• Lajos Köteles – Katalin Rozsnyai: Határmenti turizmusfejlesztés
humáner forrásainak korszer sítése. (Bringing to date the human
resources cross border tourism development), PHARE CBC project
proposal. TSC Institute of Healthcare Studies, Gyula, 2003
• Lajos Köteles: Az egészségturizmus, mint a turizmus oktatásának új
területe. (Health tourism as the new field of tourism training), 2006
(under publication)
• Katalin Rozsnyai: Magyar-román együttm ködési lehet ségek a
turizmusban. (Possibilities of Hungarian and Romanian cooperation in
tourism), European Challenges 2 scientific conference, University of
Szeged, pp. 176-180. 2003 (2)
• György Székely: Hungarian National Tourist Office

42. Thank you for your attention!