Healthy profits

Health resorts in Poland enjoyed great success during the communist era. However, they were then viewed as places for recuperation and mainly associated with health treatment, as well as social activities and dancing. Nowadays the fashion for health resorts is coming back in a new way. "Polish health resorts are not just sanatoriums, hotels, boarding houses, restaurants, cafés, spas, promenades or tourist trails, but also areas for engaging in Nordic walking, cycling on paths of varying degrees of difficulty and, finally, as facilities with professional cross-country ski courses. They also offer water recreation complexes, skating rinks for children and youngsters, sports and recreation complexes, outdoor gyms, theme gardens and high rope parks, among other features. Health resorts are also building more and more modern spa and wellness facilities," says Jan Golba, president of the management board of the Association of Polish Spa-Communities (which embraces 36 spa communities a