The specific objectives of the program lie in: • acquisition of new knowledge and specialized professional skills that will create new perspectives in their business activity. • familiarizing them with new and modern methods so that their work is more efficient. • encouraging them to get to know and apply new concepts in their professional practice. • increasing their self-confidence as a consequence of their contact with corresponding entrepreneurs from abroad. • strengthening cooperative attitudes and behaviors that will help them in their professional development • their contact with highly competitive labor markets demanding specialized knowledge and skills..
In the area of Loutraki there are several infrastructures - Hospital, Hemodialysis Centers, Extracorporeal Centers, Thermal Springs with a modern Bath Therapy Center, Hotels - to support this form of (medical) tourism, in addition to the easy and short access from Athens make Loutraki and the wider area ideal destination. There is already a certain group of tourists in the area and an increase is expected. For these reasons, EPAL, considering the professional rehabilitation of its students and their specialization in subjects that make them competitive in the labor market, designed the program entitled "EDUCATION OF STUDENTS IN HEALTH TOURISM" for the specialties of Nursing and Tourism Professions.. The specialties of the students are of a different nature because the Medical Tourism ecosystem is particularly complex because, in addition to health units, hotels, insurance organizations, international certification bodies, specialized travel agents, legal services, government agencies, etc. are involved. The specialty of tourism professions moves to Cyprus in order to get to know the organization that this specific form of tourism needs, the mediation between patients and health providers and the formation of personalized packages of high quality and economically competitive services and attractive destinations. The flow in Italy was not finally implemented due to the bans specific to the specific country because there was a ban by the Ministry of Education on the subject of "Suspension of student and teacher excursions-movements in Italy" on 23/02/2020 under number 26429/D2 while the school unit had planned to travel on 02/24/2020.