Long Stay in Thailand, Thailand Long Stay

Linked to the health-and-holiday concept is the promotion of Long Stay visitors, with is mainly targeted at getting retirees from countries that have harsh winters and a higher cost of living to stay for extended periods in Thailand, where it is both warmer and less expensive.

Thailand owes much of its international popularity to the remarkable variety of its natural attractions. On offer is a tremendous choice of settings - blissful beaches and islands, rugged hills and jungles, teaming rivers and waterfalls, and more.

Long Stay in Thailand
Healthy lifestyle activities
Traditional Thai massage
Herbal steam baths & hot springs
Meditation
Yoga
Health spas
Beauty treatments

Now a related product of this diverse environment, the country's rich natural healing heritage, has started to attract a new generation of discerning tourists. With the increasing international popularity of health centred holidays, Thailand is pushing to the fore its world-renowned traditional massage, herbal steam baths, healing arts, meditation, aromatherapy, yoga, acupuncture, cookery and beauty treatments, as well as an ever-expanding selection of world-class spas.

Longer stays are the order of the day as visitors seek not just to experience these healthy ways fleetingly but to absorb maximum benefits over an extended period, while at the same time experiencing the country's history and culture at a deeper level. Once the process of rejuvenation and enlightenment starts to bear fruit, the logic of making this choice becomes beautifully apparent and quite irresistible.

Thai hospitality is renowned around the world, and this is a fact of which the Thais are very proud. This asset also plays a vital part in the private health services in which the quality and the standard are exceptionally high.

With the country gearing towards a Long Stay healthy lifestyle tourism, medical services play an important part as well. At present, Thailand has altogether 455 private hospitals scattered throughout the kingdom - 121 in Bangkok, 165 in the Central Plains and the East Coast, 62 in the North, 57 in the Northeast, and 50 in the South.

Most of the hospitals are staffed with overseas-trained doctors and specialists who can ensure that communication is no barrier. There are fast mobile services including helicopter and aircraft, and patients' records can be swiftly obtained via the internet.

Visitors who choose to Long Stay in Thailand can rest assured that Thailand's private hospitals are of very high standard while the fees are surprising low compared to those in the West.

Enjoy the healthy Thai food and learn the art of Thai cooking.

Enjoy the benefits of traditional Thai massage or learn the techniques for yourself at numerous resorts and spas, as well as the famous Wat Po in Bangkok.

Enjoy traditional Thai healing in the form of a herbal steam bath designed to improve circulation, reduce stress and muscle fatigue, enhance the respiratory system, ease allergies and cure skin
ailments.

Meditate your way to health and happiness.

Rejuvenate your body, mind and spirit in a distinctively Thai atmosphere at the finest of spas.

Take up yoga and achieve harmony of mind, body and spirit.

Experience the rejuvenating power of the 4,000-year-old Chinese art of acupuncture, a technique that awakens the body's self-healing responSes and restores the balance of yin and yang.

Experience the holistic healing power of aroma therapy and wave good-bye to negative energies and depression.

Pamper yourself with all kinds of beauty treatments, modern and traditional, at amazing Thai prices.

Learn the Thai language for a better understanding of the country and its people, so making your Long Stay more fun and meaningful.