Hot Springs Initiative Resources
The Hot Springs Initiative intention is to connect the global community of hot springs and geothermal resources by raising awareness of this unique and distinct segment of global recreation, health and tourism industry (community). The following are a list of helpful resources.
2023 World Bathing Day
Hot Springs Symposium
Peninsula Hot Springs, Australia, June 27th, 2023
Hot Springs Symposium Program & Profiles
Watch the Speaker’s Videos
- Charles Davidson – Hot Springs Centered Wellness Community, Extended Version
- Tim Biles & Ben Cooke – A Planner’s Guide to Hot Springs Development
- Malcom Short, Dr. Aaron Randell & Karen Golden – Rotorua’s Hot Springs Renaissance
- Gaelle Hugues Gregoire Joson – Hot Springs Case Study: Measuring and assessing the socio-cultural, environmental & economic impacts of hot springs
- Associate Prof. Joanne Pyke & Dr. Madelene Blaer – The contributions of hot springs to local, national and global environmental, social and economic wellbeing: A proposal for a 20-year longitudinal study
- Conor Mullan – The Development of the Diploma of Hydrothermal Wellness
- David Dronet – Building Hot Springs-based Wellness Resorts and Villages
- Menzel – Maple Grove Hot Springs
- Jeff Birkby – Natural Flow-Through Systems at Hot Springs Resorts – How Effective Are They?
- Barry Harris – Te Aroha Geothermal Pools & Spa Investment Opportunities
Price Lourens – Hot Springs Investment Opportunities on the West Coast - Mugavin – Hot Springs Design and Architecture
- Clive Dwyer and Matt Sykes – Work In Progress: Growing the conditions for a sector to thrive
- James White – New Zealand Hot Springs
- Vicky Nash – USA Hot Springs Industry Update
- Catherine Lan – Chinese Hot Springs Industry Development Update
Speaker PDF Presentations
- Charles Davidson – Hot Springs Centered Wellness Community, Extended Version
- Tim Biles & Ben Cooke – A Planner’s Guide to Hot Springs Development
- Malcom Short, Dr. Aaron Randell & Karen Golden – Rotorua’s Hot Springs Renaissance
- Gaelle Hugues Gregoire Joson – Hot Springs Case Study: Measuring and assessing the socio-cultural, environmental & economic impacts of hot springs
- Associate Prof. Joanne Pyke & Dr. Madelene Blaer – The contributions of hot springs to local, national and global environmental, social and economic wellbeing: A proposal for a 20-year longitudinal study
- Conor Mullan – The Development of the Diploma of Hydrothermal Wellness
- David Dronet – Building Hot Springs-based Wellness Resorts and Villages
- Menzel – Maple Grove Hot Springs
- Jeff Birkby – Natural Flow-Through Systems at Hot Springs Resorts – How Effective Are They?
- Barry Harris – Te Aroha Geothermal Pools & Spa Investment Opportunities
- Price Lourens – Hot Springs Investment Opportunities on the West Coast
- Mugavin – Hot Springs Design and Architecture
- Samantha Freeman – Hot Springs–developing, investing, borrowing? The Valuation Piece
- Clive Dwyer and Matt Sykes – Work In Progress: Growing the conditions for a sector to thrive
- James White – New Zealand Hot Springs
- Vicky Nash – USA Hot Springs Industry Update
- Catherine Lan – Chinese Hot Springs Industry Development Update
View all PDF presentations and videos
from the Hot Springs Symposium
Awaken Festival at Peninsula Hot Springs
2023 G3T Global Thermal Think Tank
Tour of New Zealand and Australian Geothermal Springs
June 21-30, 2023
Hot Spring Initiative Conferences
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- Australia: Hot Springs Symposium, Peninsula Hot Springs, June 2023
- Australia: Australasian Spa and Wellness Association Annual Conference (ASPA)
- Canada: CanGea
- Czech Republic: MinWat
- France: European Thermal Meeting
- Hungary: Budapet Water Conference
- Italy: Flowpath – National Meeting on Hydrology Italy
- Italy: 2015 FEMTEC Congress
- Japan: International Society of Medical Hydrology and Climatology (ISMH)
- Peru: World Geothermal Energy Conference
- United States: Hot Springs Connection, 4-8 November 2019
- United States: Hot Springs Connection, 7-9 November, 2018
- Global: Think GeoEnergy
- Global: Geothermal Energy Association
- Global: Global Thermal Think Tank, China & Japan 2019
- Global: Global Thermal Think Tank, Italy 2018
- Global: Global Thermal Think Tank, United States 2017
- Global: Global Thermal Think Tank, Germany 2016
Hot Springs Initiative Books
Healing With Water: English Spas and The Water Cure, 1840-1960
Jane M. Adams, 2015
Hiking Hot Springs in the Pacific Northwest Evie Litton and Sally Jackson; FalconGuides, 2014
Touring Hot Springs Montana and Wyoming Jeff Birkby; FalconGuides, 2013
Hot Springs and Hot Pools of the Northwest (Kindle Edition) Marjorie Gersh-Young; Aqua Thermal Access, 2013
Hot Springs of Western Washington Jesse W. Love; Kaleidoscope Publications, 2013
Hot Springs: Images of America Robert K. Raines; Arcadia Publishing, 2013
Touring Hot Springs California and Nevada Matt C. Bischoff; FalconGuides, 2012
Touring Colorado Hot Springs Susan Joy Paul and Carl Wambach; FalconGuides, 2012
Hot Springs & Hot Pools of the Southwest: Jayson Loam’s Original Guide Marjorie Gersh-Young; Aqua Thermal Access, 2011
Health and Wellness Tourism: Spas and Hot Springs Patricia Erfurt-Cooper and Malcolm Cooper; Channel View Publications, 2009
Geothermal Living Örn Daniel Jónsson, 2009
Spas & Hot Springs of Mexico “Mexico” Mike Nelson, 2008
Touring New Mexico Hot Springs Matt C. Bischoff; FalconGuides, 2008
Hot Springs and Hot Pools of the Northwest: Jayson Loam’s Original Guide Marjorie Gersh-Young; Aqua Thermal Access, 2008
Geothermal Thermal: An Alternative Resource for the 21st Century Harsh Gupta and Sukanta Roy; Elsevier, 2007
A Guide to Japanese Hot Springs Sally Jackson; Raupo Publishing (NZ) Ltd., 2006
Geothermal Energy Resources for Developing Countries D. Chandrasekharam and J. Bundschuh; Swets & Zeitlinger, 2002
Stories from a Heated Earth, Our Geothermal Heritage Raffaele Cataldi, Geothermal Resources Council and International Geothermal Association ; Geothermal Resources Council, 1999
A Guide to Japanese Hot Springs Anne Hotta and Yoko Ishiguro; Kodansha America, 1986
Hot Springs Initiative Presentations
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- 2019 World Spa & Wellness Asia Convention – The Rise of Hot Springs Charles Davidson
- 2016 GWS Mexico – Asia Hot Spring Industry overview Sam Foster
- 2016 Austria Hot Springs Forum Global Wellness Institute
- 2014 Australasian Spa Conference – Indigenous People Connection with Kwatye Dean Ah Chee
- 2014 Australasian Spa Conference – Hot Springs Health and Wellbeing Peter Sharplin
- 2014 Australasian Spa Conference – Challenges in spa evolution Peter Sharplin
- 2014 Australasian Spa Conference – Witjira National Park South Australia Dean Ah Chee
- 2014 Australasian Spa Conference – The Power of Hot Springs for Healthy Communities Marion Schneider
- 2014 Australasian Spa Conference – Germany Global trends in thermal waters and hot springs Jane Kitchen
- 2014 Australasian Spa Conference – Creating a Wellness Industry Marion Schneider
- 2013 GWS India – Tibetan Medical Institute Hot Spring Dharamshala
Hydro-Thermal Therapies are Essential for Building Health, Safety and Resilience in the Age of Pandemics
This position paper has been prepared to express and demonstrate why hydrothermal experiences should play an important active role in this time of global pandemic. It was written by Professor Marc Cohen in collaboration with members of the Global Wellness Institute Hydrothermal Initiative and members of the Hot Springs Initiative. Professor Marc Cohen is one of the founding members of the Hot Springs Initiative. Thank you Marc and all contributors including the authors of the many reference papers.
We encourage discussion, comments and correspondence on this topic and ask that you direct your thoughts to Professor Cohen at [email protected]
Hot Springs View Dials
The “dial” below is an interactive inforgraphic which helps the user find hot springs locations in various countries. View dials have been created for: Australia, Austria, Canada, France, India, Iran, Japan, New Zealand and United States. They can and will be generated for other countries in the future. The intention of these dials is to help create awareness that there are hot springs all over the globe and to seed in the minds of hot springs visitors that they can include hot springs in their travel itineraries.
How to use the interactive Hot Springs view dial: Below is the view dial for Australia. You will see that each arrow that goes from the center map to the outside circle represents a hot springs property. The name of the hot springs property is given on the arrow as is the distance and directions from your starting point (“datum point”) to other hot springs all over the globe. The “datum point” hot springs is marked in red on the maps. While this example infographic for Australia that you are seeing is not “clickable,” you can download a PDF file version and then you will be able to reach the websites of each of these hot springs properties.
Click on the country view dial to download the high resolution PDF file. Each Hot Springs property on the view dial will have an embedded link to its website.
AUSTRALIA
FRANCE
JAPAN
AUSTRIA
INDIA
NEW ZEALAND
CANADA
IRAN
USA
Hot Springs & Geothermal Mineral Waters: A User’s Guide for the Global Wellness Traveler
This user’s guide, published by the Global Wellness Institute and written by Ed Moffett and Amy McDonald, was created to help wellness travelers grasp the value of, and more specifically learn facts about, participating in hot springs bathing.
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Balneotherapy
Using natural thermal and mineral waters as a healing approach–which is studied medically as balneotherapy–has a history of over 4,000 years, and is used all over the world as part of traditional therapies. It includes not only hot and mineral springs bathing, but mud packs/treatments and drinking and inhalation therapies.
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Global Thermal Think Tanks (G3T)
Each year before and after the Global Wellness Summit, hot springs owners, operators, senior managers and researchers from across the globe discuss a range of industry issues and opportunities to collaborate and grow together.
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Hot Springs Initiative Organizations
The Hot Springs Initiative strives to connect the community of global hot springs. If there is a hot spring organization you feel should be included on this list, or if this list needs to be corrected in any way, please send us an email.
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The Global Wellness Institute serves as an umbrella organization for numerous Initiatives, that are independently chaired and run. The resources, editorial, research and opinions presented by the Initiatives do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Global Wellness Institute.
