It’s evident that many people are much more interested in their physical, social and psychological welfare in their everyday life, and they are ready to travel to remote places at big distances, to experience different types of wellness tourism. This vary from trying the healing waters of mineral springs to looking for spiritual healing or even cosmetic procedures by surgery intervention or beauty therapy. Main centers for this type of tourism in Bourgas district are the mud baths in Pomorie and Bourgas mineral spa resort.

Bourgas Mineral Spa Resort – Main healing factor of the resort is the mineral water – characterized as warm (41° С), light mineral content (0,604 g/l), chloride hydro carbonated sodium, with high alkaline reaction (рН 9,95), silicon (94 mg colloidal meta silicon acid in l). Transparent, without color, without smell and with very good drinking taste quality which is due to the small water steadiness (so-called “soft” water). Recommendations for treatment – healing of inflammatory and degenerative illnesses of the  locomotors system, conditions after fractures of the bones, illness of the periphery and central nerve system, as well as for general prevention and strengthening of the body of healthy visitors in the hotel – for tempering against flues and infection diseases and for increasing the physical and psychic durability.

Balneo resort Pomorie – The mineral water belongs to the rare type of mineral waters because it has considerably low percentage of minerals but on the other hand it has considerable quantity of magnesium which is extremely precious for plenty of important physiologic functions of the body. The temperature of water at its spring is 20°С. The healing mud is taken out from the lake and has extremely precious physical and chemical characteristics. It is black, plastic, with fine structure, rich in hydrogen sulfide and humane acids, average mineralized with silicate-carbonate skeleton, as well as with light alkaline reaction. The resort is a subject to plenty of medical research works and its profile includes first of all the diseases that are affected very well by the mud treatment: diseases of the locomotors system – chronicle degenerative and inflammatory joint diseases: osteo art rose with different localization, rheumatic poly arthritis, infection arthritis; myalgii, myozytes, lumbago; ostitis, periostitis, conditions after bone fractures, Perry arthritis, bursitis, tendon vaginitis; conditions after trauma of joints and soft tissue; gynecological diseases, as well as sterility; diseases of the male genitals, remaining phenomena after operation interventions and light cases of sterility.

Excellent curative results are achieved also with some diseases of the peripheral nerve system – chronic neuralgia, neuritis, plexitis, radiculoneuritis, discoptia, neurons vegetopatius, neuro-fibremiozytis, after trauma conditions of the periphery nerves, as well as some skin diseases – chronicle exema, psoriasis, and neurons dermatitis. On the other hand the seaside climatic factors are widely used for treatment of some diseases of the respiratory system – chronicle bronchitis, rhino pharengites, sinusitis, trachaetis, light forms of bronchi asthma, functional disorders of the nervous system, as well as hypertonic disease; other indicators – obesity, gouty affection, conditions of revitalization after hard diseases and operation interventions, secondary anemia. The resort functions all the year round.

Spa tourism – tourism that puts accent on recreation and healing of the body by treatment with water, such as swimming pools, vapor rooms and sauna. The stress is put mainly on the recreation, treatment and beauty procedures, less than on spiritual aspects of some exercises such as yoga. The surrounding environment is usually luxury and with scenes that are matching it. Many hotels in the seaside resorts have such services in order to attract the spa market, and the most famous of them in Bourgas district are: balneo hotel “Pomorie” in Pomorie, Grand Hotel “Primorets” in Bourgas.