Turkish Bath Culture in Hungary

Abstract

Just like at the Romans, the bath was the main venue of everyday life for the Turkish people as well. Besides exchanging recipes, women gave advice to each other, the men disputed important issues and often kept pre arranged marriages here. You were only allowed to pray, when you were sufficiently cleaned. Of course, it is not insignificant that the construction of baths was in many cases intended to promote material well-being, as they were usually built by senior executives who influenced the satisfaction of their followers in a very positive direction. Generally speaking, these baths were free for the reasons mentioned above, indicating to everyone that the builder was a wealthy man.

Uncovering the spatiotemporal evolution of the service industry based on geo-big-data- a case study on the bath industry in China

“…Earlier studies about the bath industry focused on cultural perspectives, mainly on the causes of bath culture, related allusions, and bath characteristics (Vollrath, 1999 ). For example, Bodolai and Kósa ( 2018 ) introduced and constructed a conceptual map of the Memi Pasha bath in Turkish bath culture; Koo and Jun ( 2012 ) argued that bathing is a positive method for treating diseases in Korean society, and the time and climate of bathing may lead to different healing effects; Han ( 2019 ) argued that Chinese bath culture is driven by urbanization and economic prosperity. There are ancient-modern and north–south differences in the Chinese bathing culture; however, with the optimization and upgrading of economic culture (Yao et al, 2021 ), the bath industry is forming toward an industrial scale, such as the Japanese spa tourism industry (Kurata and Ohe 2020 ).…”