G3T2018 GLOBAL THERMAL THINK TANK ITALY PROGRAM 3-5 OCTOBER

Hot springs owners, operators, senior managers and researchers from across the globe meet to discuss a range of industry issues and opportunities to collaborate and grow together.

2018 October 6-8 Technogym, Cesena, Italy G3T2018 Wednesday October 3 • 10am-10.15am 2018 world hot springs research update; • 3pm-3.30pm hot springs and mental health Welcome and introductions by James Clark-Kennedy – PhD Candidate, • 3.30pm-4pm RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. History of Italian hot springs, past, • 10.15am-10.30am present and future. Discussion: shared experiences of mental health/hot springs. Presentation by Potential collaboration. Dr Nicola Angelo Fortunati • 10.30am-10.45am – General Director Experiences of a Swiss Thermal Business Auditor Terme e Spa, by Roland Lymann, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences Italian Hotel Collection and Arts, Institute of Tourism Management • 4pm-4.30pm • 10.45am-11am Question and answer session. Discussion: facility auditing and world standards. • 4.30-4.45pm • 11am-11.30am Hot springs products retail products: Tea break the Japanese Experience • 11.30am-11.45am by Tomonori Maruyama, Chief Research Consultant & Manager, Water disinfection in the past and today Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co. Ltd, Japan. by Thomas Beutel - Expert of the standard associations • 4.45pm-5pm CEN, DIN and ASI. Wellness in the hot springs environment • 11.45-12 noon by Brook Ramage, General Manager, Hot springs sanitation practices in Germany Peninsula Hot Springs, Victoria, Australia. by Jürgen Kannewischer – Water hygiene expert. • 5pm-5.30pm • 12 noon-12.15pm Innovations in hot springs Hot springs sanitation practices – Marion Schneider, Co-owner and CEO of by Kenneth Shular, Managing Director, Toskanaworld (Hotel an der Therme Bad Sulza, Oceanis International. Hotel Resort Schloss Auerstedt, Hotel an der • 12.15pm -12.45pm Therme Hotel Bad Orb and Klinikzentrum Discussion: potential collaboration. Bad Sulza). • 12.45pm-1.30pm – Charles Davidson, Co-owner, Chairman, Lunch Peninsula Hot Springs, Australia. • 1.30pm-1.45pm • 5.30pm-5.45 pm World Bathing Day update Question and answer session. by Prof of Health Sciences Marc Cohen, • 5.45pm RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Guided facility tour, behind the scenes • 1.45pm-2pm hosted by Dr Fortunati. Bathe the World event update • 7.30pm by Charles Davidson. Welcome dinner • 2pm-2.15pm Discussion: potential collaboration. • 2.15pm-2.45pm Thursday October 4 Wai Ariki Hot Springs and Spa development update • 9am -9.15am Rotorua, New Zealand Introduction to World Federation of Hydrotherapy by Malcolm Short, Chairman of the and Climatotherapy (FEMTEC) Pukeroa Oruawhata Trust by FEMTEC President, Professor of Medical Therapy and • 2.45pm-3pm Thermal Medicine Umberto Solimene, Medical School of Tea break the State University of Milan, Italy, and Director of the World • 3pm-3.15pm Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Traditional, Bio Balance – The lifechanging concept Complementary & Integrated Medicine. by Sven Huckenbeck, Group Director of Spa, • 9.15am -9.30am Danubius Hotels Group - Spa Division. Introduction to EAPTC • 3.15pm-4pm by Dr Natalia Tchaourskaia, President of the European Wrap-up Association of Patients and Users of Thermal Centres. • 4pm-8pm • 9.30am-10am Free time, bathing, massage etc. Discussion: Collaboration with FEMTEC, EAPTC and • 8pm Global Hot Springs Initiative. Dinner G3T2018 SPEAKERS

Professor Umberto Solimene Dr Nicola Angelo Fortunati ITALY ITALY Professor of Medical Therapy and Thermal Spa general director of the Italian Hospitality Medicine at the Medical School of the State Collection, which runs three Tuscan spas: University of Milan. Director of the World Health Fonteverde Natural Spa Resort, Grotta Giusti Organisation Collaborating Centre for Traditional, Natural Spa Resort and Bagni di Pisa Medical Spa Complementary & Integrated Medicine; Resort. Dr Fortunati is president of the Tuscan President of the World Federation for Thermes Technical & Scientific Committee and Hydrotherapy and Climatotherapy (FEMTEC); a member of the Italian Thermal Properties President of the European Association of Federation. Medical Wellness (AEMB).

Dr Natalia Tchaourskaia Malcolm Short RUSSIA NEW ZEALAND President of the European Association of Patients Malcolm was appointed Chairman of the Pukeroa and Users of Thermal Centres. Oruawhata Trust some 33 years ago. Pukeroa Spa Management Chair: International Russian Oruawhata Trust is a Maori land Trust managing Academy for Tourism. Specialist of the Ministry the land interests of a Rotorua based tribal group. of Health of USSR and Russian Federation in the The Trust has grown its asset base from $2.3m Field of Medical Biological Problems with special in 1981 to $225m. The Trust has commercial activity in many European, North and Central and residential property portfolios and, through Africa and Far East Countries. Expert consultant Pukeroa Lakefront Holdings Limited, is extending of the Russian State Social University of Moscow. its tourism activities to include the Wai Ariki Hot Springs and Spa development.

Tomonori Maruyama Marion Schneider JAPAN GERMANY Chief Research Consultant & Manager, Mitsui Marion Schneider is co-owner and CEO of Knowledge Industry Co. Ltd, Japan. Tomonori Toskanaworld with its Hotel an der Therme Bad Maruyama is dedicated to new business Sulza, Hotel Resort Schloss Auerstedt, Hotel an development and global research on issues such der Therme Hotel Bad Orb and Klinikzentrum as spa and wellness markets, services, quality Bad Sulza. She is the CEO of Toskana Therme Bad standards and regulations. As chief researcher Sulza, Bad Schandau and Bad Orb, with its unique for Mitsui Knowledge Industry, Tomonori and his Liquid Sound. Together with Micky Remann she team have undertaken government-commissioned owns TTS Product & Service GmbH. studies of the spa and wellness industry. He is currently engaged in co-innovation projects with inter-business collaboration.

Professor Marc Cohen Brook Ramage AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA A registered medical practitioner who has been General Manager of Peninsula Hot Springs. promoting wellness for more than three decades Previously Founder and Managing Director of the through teaching, events, publishing, research, Golden Door Australia for 16 years and General clinical work and community engagement. Manager of Cabarita Ocean Health Retreat. Currently Professor of Health & Biomedical Has a BSc in Human Movement Studies from Sciences at RMIT University, where he supervises Victoria University. studies on hot springs, saunas, nutrition, herbal medicine, yoga, meditation, lifestyle, elite athletic performance, pesticides’ health impact, organic food, detoxification. G3T2018 SPEAKERS

Jürgen Kannewischer Charles Davidson GERMANY AUSTRALIA Jürgen Kannewischer is co-owner and CEO of Founder, Chairman and Co-owner of Peninsula Kannewischer Collection with its thermal spas in Hot Springs, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Baden-Baden, Bad Kissingen, Burg (Spreewald), Australia. Co-owner Maruia Hot Springs, Bad Salzuflen and Bad Ems. He is the CEO of New Zealand. Chairman of the Victorian Tourism Kannewischer Ing.Ges.mbH, which is planning Industry Council since 2016. technical equipment for cities and other owners Chairman of the Global Hot Springs Initiative. in Germany and some other central European countries.

Thomas Beutel Sven Huckenbeck GERMANY CZECH REPUBLIC Thomas Beutel has been working in the water Group Director of Spa, Danubius Hotels Group industry since 1991 and since 1997 for Lutz- – Spa Division. Over 15 years’ experience in Jesco GmbH being responsible for business European health & spa management. Practical development. He was working as an expert for experience in developing and implementing new swimming pool technology and dosing plant strategies and holistic treatment concepts. engineering since 2005 and is a member of various Vast experience in treatments, such as myoreflex standard associations and societies in this field therapy, acupunct-massage, diverse fitness-and serving as spokesman and being active as an sports therapies and the bio-balance concept, expert and speaker at events. developed by himself. Sven is a winner of various international spa awards.

Roland Lymann Kenneth Shular SWITZERLAND AUSTRALIA/CANADA Roland Lymann has lectured on destination Managing Director of Oceanis International, management and health tourism at the Institute an Australian-based consultancy specialising of Tourism at the University of Applied Science in in water-related tourism, leisure and science Luzern since 2008. Among other responsibilities, projects. He is a professional engineer who has led he audits Swiss thermal baths and wellness the design of hundreds of major aquatic projects destinations and he organises the annual meeting around the world. He regularly engages in for health tourism. Previously, Roland was industry forums with many international technical tourism director (e.g. Adelboden) and later the associations, and is often requested to bring his deputy director at the Swiss Travel Fund, where experience to international projects. development of the first Swiss wellness family resort as among his responsibilities.

James Clark-Kennedy AUSTRALIA Formerly a journalist of 16 years, then hot springs marketing and communications for 11 years. TUSCANY Completed a Health and Biomedical Sciences Honours degree by hot springs research with ITALY RMIT University, where he is now midway through his PhD in Complementary Medicine, with a balneotherapy/mental health focus.

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