Results
Spa Jáchymov won an important prize – „The Spa Company of
the Year 2008“, the main prize of the Spa Festival in Karlovy Vary. The prize
went to MUDr. Eduard Bláha, the general director of Spa Jáchymov from JUDr.
Josef Pavel, the President of the Karlovy Vary Region, Ing. Rostislav
Vondruška, the director of the state-owned agency Czech Tourism and the
chairman of the festival jury, and Fakhreddin Mirzoev, the general director of
the company Terma Czech Republic Ltd., the general partner of the Spa Festival
Karlovy Vary.
„This year's anniversary festival appreciated in very severe competition
those who have become the most important providers of spa service in recent
years. The festival also appreciated those who fight for the development of spa
service in small places with a tradition as well as spa service which is
provided by children's sanatoriums in the Czech Republic“, Ing.
Rostislav Vondruška, the director of the state-owned agency
CzechTourism says.
Sanatoriums for children were awarded a prize for quality and uniqueness of children's spas in the Czech Republic
The prize was awarded by the European partner of the festival – the
Economic Chamber of Upper Franconia and the town Bayreuth. The award went from
Dr. Sigrun Lang, the president of the European Union of Spas, and Dr. Hans F.
Trunzer, to Hana Hrušková, the director of children's spa Kynžvart who has
been pushing through the strengthening of the role of children's balneology
in the health system of the Czech Republic for a long time. It has been for the
first time in the history of the Spa Festival Karlovy Vary that these names of
high renown have visited the festival. It means an expression of support for
Czech and Moravian balneology from the European Union of Spas – a few months
before our chairmanship in the European Union. It is a clear signal that Czech
balneology is health service which is provided in super quality.
The Spa Festival Karlovy Vary awarded the following prizes and nominations in the year 2008
The Spa Company of the Czech Republic in the Year 2008
SPA JÁCHYMOV
For the traditional 21-day-long cure of Jáchymov
Nominees:
Ostrožská Nová Ves – for the treatment of psoriasis in a
sulphurous spa
Spa Darkov – for a week-long stay with a polarium (cryogenic
chamber)
Spa Jáchymov – for the traditional 21-day-long cure of
Jáchymov
The spa company wins the prize for the best therapeutic, relaxation or preventive product.
The cultural and the publicity product of the spa
SPA TŘEBOŇ a OSTROŽSKÁ NOVÁ VES – will share the
prize
One product is cultural and targeted at the clientele of the spa – spa
patients; the other product is a publicity product and is targeted at doctors
who recommend the spa to their patients.
Nominees
Spa Třeboň – for the magazine „Spa Wellness 2008“ and
cultural products for patients
Ostrožská Nová Ves – for presentations for doctors
„Dermatological Days of Nová Ves“
Pozlovice – for „Local Festivities“-a specific
destination of tourists and spa patients
The prize of the jury
IMPERIAL KARLOVY VARY
For the spa cup KALA made in the Thun Studio, designed by Štěpán
Kuklík.
Under the auspices of Livia Klausová, the wife of the President of the Czech Republic.
The prize of the main media partner C.O.T. media – „Trendy Boys“
JOSEF PAVEL and ALEXANDER REBJONOK
For the work dedicated to the project to rescue the historic Imperial Spa
Building for the purpose of public presentation of balneology to the public and
quality service in the field of culture for spa visitors.
Nominees:
Jiří Milský and Zdeněk Chaloupka
Andrea Pfeffer-Ferklová and Klára Nýdlová
Josef Pavel and Alexander Rebjonok
„Trendy Boys“ is a prize of the dearest media partner of the festival, the company C.O.T. media.
The prize of the general partner of the Spa Festival, the company Terma
Czech Republic
ing. ROSTISLAV VONDRUŠKA, the director of the state-owned
agency CzechTourism
For the introduction of the trademark „Karlovy Vary Week“.
The prize of the Association of Hotels and Restaurants of the regional
section Karlovy Vary
ANDREA PFEFFER-FERKLOVÁ, the general director of the
Grandhotel Pupp Karlovy Vary
The hotelier of the Year 2008 in the Karlovy Vary Region
DENISA PRIŠKINOVÁ, Hotel Čajkovskij Karlovy Vary
The Young Manager 2008 in the Karlovy Vary Region
„Karlovy Vary is a town which offered a perfect background for The Spa Festival Karlovy Vary, and the background was created by exceptional people from the town and the Karlovy Vary region in the atmosphere full of support from the professional team of the state-owned agency Czech Tourism“, the director of the Spa Festival Karlovy Vary Jaroslav Dolina said in conclusion.
The Czech Spa Festival Karlovy Vary was visited by travel agencies and
media which the festival had brought being supported by all partners of the
festival. The fifth year of the festival improved the quality of service for the
foreign participants in the festival. It co-operated with the general partner of
the festival, the Terma Travel.
30 spa companies from the Czech Republic and 55 companies from abroad took part in the Spa Festival. They were travel agencies, tour operators and the media from China, Canada, the Ukraine, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Finland, Estonia, Holland and France.
