According to the Styrian Medicines and Health Resort Act, the term “thermal baths” is protected and may only be used if the mineralised water has an outlet temperature of at least 20 ° C.
The water in the pools of the Asia Spa Leoben originates as fresh spring water in the Hochschwab massif with a temperature of 6 - 10° C and is thus too cool, in other words it is not of thermal origin. The water is then heated up to 34° C using district heating.
The difference between the Asia Spa Leoben and a thermal spa is therefore the original outlet temperature of the water.