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The present thesis treats the spatial organisation and the development ofone of the most “ancient” forms of tourism: the thermal (spa) tourism. Undoubtedly,thermalism -and the subsequent thermal tourism- has constituted and will constitute eitherin the future a rather popular social activity due to its indissoluble connection andrelation with the health sector. Consequently, thermal tourism evolves in a place thatshould be characterised of its appropriate spatial organisation, in order to assure itsattractiveness and its functionality in the near and distant future. In Greece, thermalismdates at least since the classic era; the Asklepieia constituted the first organised spatialinterventions into the thermal springs. However, although Greece was a pioneer concerningspatial organisation and developmental planning of the (early) thermal tourism, nowadays theregions in question “suffer” from intense spatial (and not only) problems. It is true thatthermal (spa) tourism in Greece, after a period of growth and intense development during the50’s, 60’s and the 70’s, faced, at the end of the 20th century, a period of continuousrecession and decline that lead to the emergence of different negative consequences:neglect, depreciation and degradation constitute the main elements of the contemporaryaspect of the Greek thermal (spa) towns, as well as of all regions where thermal (spa)tourism expands. In this framework, the present thesis tries to reach, through a theoreticaland experimental study, the kind of spatial organisation and planning that are indicated forthe regions of thermal tourism in Greece, in order to accomplish the objective of theirsustainable and integrated development in the context of the new social-economicalconditions and the always ‘present’ request concerning their modernisation. To this aim, weexperimentally studied three Mediterranean countries (Italy, France, Spain) that arecompetitive in comparison with Greece, in order to ascertain the contemporary trendsconcerning the development and planning of thermal (spa) tourism. In parallel, we examined,on a national level, the most important regions of thermal tourism (the three most importantspa towns being case studies), in order to investigate their structure and their spatialcharacteristics, as well as the spatial problems that the majority of them are facingnowadays. Finally, taking into account the contemporary trends of spatial planning, theinternational experience, as well as the profile and the demands of the contemporary Greekspa tourists (according to a research made on a sample of 700 persons), the thesis forms newmodels of spatial planning, in order to remove the existing negative situation and topromote -through planning- an upgraded organisation and management of all regions where theGreek thermal (spa) tourism could evolve in the future.

Χωρική οργάνωση, ανάπτυξη και σχεδιασμός του θερμαλιστικού τουρισμού στην Ελλάδα