Wellness Tourism became an important part in today'ssociety. Preventive actions and privately paid healthpromotions are gaining more importance as people arecreating more self-awareness towards their healthstatus. Primarily, this book gives the reader aninsight on health, health promotion and wellness.Further, it focuses on health prevention and gives ashort overview of what complimentary medicine means.Moreover, the author Lucia Steppeler gives anintroduction to the spa industry with a special focuson the Steirische Thermenland. In order toinvestigate which role spas belonging to theSteirische Thermenland are playing, an empiricalstudy has been conducted. The outcome of this studypresents a tendency of why Styrians visit a spa, howthey experience it, what expectations people have,what treatments they are interested in and whetherthey consciously chose a spa visit to support theirhealth status.