martin plachy - the medical spa business in czech republic
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15 years in the medical spa business from the perspective of Czech company Martin Plachy Vice President of the Czech Spa Association Director, Chairman of Board, ROYAL SPA, Kur&Spa Hotels ROYAL SPA is a private chain of medical spa and wellness hotels located in four famous spa resorts in the Czech Republic with a total capacity of almost 1.000 beds Spa VILA VALAŠKA LUHAČOVICE SULPHUROUS SPA OSTROŽSKÁ NOVÁ VES Spa Hotel ANTOANETA LUHAČOVICE Wellness Hotel DIANA VELKÉ LOSINY THERMAL SPA VELKÉ LOSINYTRANSCRIPT
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15 years in the medical spa
business from the perspective
of Czech companyMartin Plachy
Vice President of the Czech Spa Association
Director, Chairman of Board, ROYAL SPA, Kur&Spa Hotels
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ROYAL SPA, KUR & SPA HOTELS
Spa Hotel ROYAL MARIÁNSKÉ LÁZNĚ
Spa Hotel MIRAMARE LUHAČOVICE
Spa VILA VALAŠKA LUHAČOVICE
SULPHUROUS SPAOSTROŽSKÁ NOVÁ VES
Spa Hotel ANTOANETA LUHAČOVICE
THERMAL SPA VELKÉ LOSINY
Wellness Hotel DIANAVELKÉ LOSINY
ROYAL SPA is a private chain of medical spa and wellness hotels located
in four famous spa resorts in the Czech Republic with a total capacity of
almost 1.000 beds
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Basic figures of ROYAL SPA
• More than 30 thousand guests coming
yearly for a spa stay with at least one
procedure a day
• Average length of stay – 8 days
• 15 % are foreign guests
• 50 % of total overnights are made by the
clients of Czech health insurance
companies
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Main products of ROYAL SPA
• Complex spa treatment for clients of
health insurance companies (treatment,
accommodation, full board) – min. 21 days
• Curative packages – min. 2 weeks
• Wellness, relaxation, preventive packages
– 1 week
• Various weekend packages with treatment
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Spas and external influances
• Medical spas and the state
• Origin of the clients
• Product demand
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Medical spas and the state
• Beginning of the 90th – total privatization of Czech spa resorts
• Public health system recognizes spa treatment – 2 % of the total spending
• Last five years – health insurance companies reduce slowly the spending
• 2011 – government want to reduce spending on spa by half
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Medical spas and the state
• Czech Spas expect to lose about 70
thousand clients out of 108 thousand
coming through health insurance
companies
• 70 thousand clients of health insurance
companies generates about 1,5 mil.
overnights in Czech medical spas facilities
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Perspective of further
development
closing of spa facilities
strong competition fight to get
existing spa clients
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Origin of the clients
• Czech Republic »123 thousand clients through
health insurance companies
»111 thousand – self payers (In 2000 only 31 thousand)
• Foreign clients»143 thousand
• Dramatic loss of German clients
• Increase of new clients from Russia, Israel, Middle East, Slovak Republic
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Perspective of further
development
growing competition in spa
industry
intensive marketing, growing cost to attract customer
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Product demand
• 15 years ago - demand on traditional
complex treatment
• 7-5 years ago – demand on wellness
• Last two years – comeback of classical
cure, good medical care, rehabilitation
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Perspective of further
development
People care more and more
about their health
Further concentration on good
cure and rehabilitation together
with good hotel services
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Our challanges
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Our challanges - Internet
• Internet opens the space
• Enables to reach new customer
• Unlimited variation of presentation
• Immediate confrontation with competition
• Enormous pressure on the price
• Customer choose by price
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Our challanges - quality
• Make quality
• Develop the product on the fundamentals
of traditional spa cure - ESPA CREDO
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Our challanges - quality
• Promote quality
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Our challanges - quality
• Sell quality
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