{"id":7234,"date":"2026-03-25T15:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeanspas.eu\/?p=7234"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:07:44","slug":"announcing-new-jury-members-for-the-european-health-spa-awards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeanspas.eu\/announcing-new-jury-members-for-the-european-health-spa-awards-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing New Jury Members for the European Health &amp; Spa Awards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We are delighted to welcome two distinguished professionals to our jury for the upcoming awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mr. Petr Kulh\u00e1nek<\/strong>, Former Minister for Regional Development, Czech Republic and Former Mayor and Regional Leader of Karlovy Vary<br><br>Mr. Kulh\u00e1nek brings extensive experience in <strong>regional policy, tourism development, and public administration<\/strong>, providing valuable insight into the integration of spa and health tourism into sustainable regional strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Reza Soltani<\/strong>, President of the Tourism Industry Research Centre, Partner of Woman Wellbeing project<br>Dr. Soltani is a globally recognized expert in <strong>tourism research, innovation, and strategic development<\/strong>, contributing deep knowledge of industry trends and evidence-based evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Their expertise will strengthen the jury\u2019s ability to recognize&nbsp;<strong>excellence in health tourism, spa innovation, and sustainable wellbeing initiatives across Europe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We look forward to their contributions in selecting the <strong>next generation of award-winning health destinations and spa leaders<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information about the awards: <a href=\"https:\/\/europeanspas.eu\/espa-innovation-award\/\">https:\/\/europeanspas.eu\/espa-innovation-award\/<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to welcome two distinguished professionals to our jury for the upcoming awards Mr. Petr Kulh\u00e1nek, Former Minister for Regional Development, Czech Republic and Former Mayor and Regional Leader of Karlovy Vary Mr. Kulh\u00e1nek brings extensive experience in regional policy, tourism development, and public administration, providing valuable insight into the integration of spa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,61],"tags":[151,239,351],"class_list":{"0":"post-7234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-espa-innovation-award","8":"category-news","9":"tag-bulgaria","10":"tag-innovation-award","11":"tag-varna"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanspas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanspas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanspas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanspas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanspas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/europeanspas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7237,"href":"https:\/\/europeanspas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions\/7237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanspas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanspas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanspas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanspas.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}