Wellness covers the whole range of tailor-made health keeping programmes and in certain cases it means the common application of therapies and medical treatments. The main point is to enable the guests involved o recover everyday stress and tiredness to relax and charge their bodies and mind. Wellness is based on keeping health and prevention and medication constitutes its base in certain cases only. For this reason healthy food is an integrated part of it.

One condition of healthy food is to eat products that are free from synthetic substances and pesticides. These bio-products are made under strict rules, special control and classification. Organic farming can be found to a considerably extent in the surroundings of Debrecen, especially in Balmazújváros (green pepper, tomatoes, onions, garlic, eggplant, zucchini, broccoli and lettuce growing) as well as in Hortobágy (grey cattle breeding).

Today a number of various kinds of accommodation are available offering wellness services. However, there are special criteria to declare some accommodation a wellness hotel.

Features of wellness hotels are as follows:

• One inside swimming pool at least.
• Two kinds of sauna or Turkish bath at least.
• Four kinds of face, body, hand, foot and hair treatments services at least.
• Six kinds of massage, relaxation and other water or dry services improving the general state of health at least.
• In their gastronomic offer traditional Hungarian specialties typically for the particular area as well as health and vegetarian food and drinks are specified.
• They should have a fitness room equipped with cardio apparatus and a coach, a sport instructor or a PE teacher.
• They should offer four kinds of programmes of leisure time activities or Martial Arts activities at least as well as one kind of aerobic work-out at least.
• They should provide three kinds of community, cultural, music and arts programmes and they should offer the facilities of the area on a continuous base.
• They should have an employee with wellness qualification or any other qualification equivalent to it at least both in morning and afternoon shift.