Hydrotherapy, Spa And Physiotherapy Center
A- Project Introduction
1. Project title: Hydrotherapy, Spa and Physiotherapy center
2. Sector: Services Sub-sector: Health Tourism
3. Products / Services: Hydrotherapy, physiotherapy, massage therapy, acupuncture and traditional medicine
4. Location:
Free zone Special Economic Zone Industrial Park Main location
5. Project specifications
This project is for construction of a health center providing services such as hydrotherapy, physiotherapy, massage therapy, acupuncture and traditional medicine. Local treatment services as per the latest international methods with the most advanced facilities and specialists are provided in this center.
This project enjoys following parts:
- Swimming pools and warm and cool ponds
- Dry and wet saunas
- Different kinds of Jacuzzis and standing bath tubs - Body fitness advanced salons
- Physiotherapy salon - Traditional medicine consultation center
- Salons for providing various kinds of massage therapy services
- Salons for providing various kinds of fish therapy services
- Salons for providing various kinds of acupuncture medicine services
- A center for selling medial herbs and natural treatment products
- Iranian traditional baths along with massage and Iranian drinks
- Buffets serving Iranian healthy and native drinks and dishes
A property with an area of 35000sqm is considered for this project that 10000sqm of that area belong to the
buildings with an area of 14700sqm structure and the rest to green area and yard.
The project provides jobs for 147 people and its annual capacity is 500,000 costumers.
6. Annual Capacity: 500,000 costumers per year
7. Land requirement: 35,000Sq.m
8. Land ownership: The land of this project belongs to the Kish Free Zone Organization that can be
sold to Iranian Citizens and leased to the foreign people.
9. permissions:
The permissions for any type of authorized economic activities in Kish free zoon are issued only by Kish Free Zone Organization. Meanwhile, if a plan needs to any other license and permits from
other competent authorities, the organization of zone will send the inquiries and the investor is only obliged to follow this subject
10. Construction and operation period:
The construction project will be done in 3 years and the operation phase is 15 years.
11. Target market:
Tourism is one of the main strategies for development of Kish Island. Kish tourism capabilities such as a beautiful sea and beach, its pleasant climate in cold half of year, appropriate residential facilities and its unique situation in Persian Gulf near the main land fall among the strategic advantages for
developing tourism in the island. Development of tourism infrastructures in the island in the recent years, has promoted the potentials for development of Kish Island. Significant progress of the tourism development plans in Kish has put this zone into the spotlight as a good pattern for development of this industry across the country. The statistics and figures
testify that just within a relatively short period, procedure of passengers entering Kish has shown a significant increase while residential and sightseeing capacities there have been promoted. Such significant promotion in procedure of passengers entering Kish in the recent years clearly indicates success of the organizations in charge of seeking tourists who travel to the island for the purposes of sightseeing and enjoying their leisure times. Rate of growth of passengers entering in the
recent years has been over %10. Presently, over 1.5 million tourists travel to this island every year and it can be predicted that this number will reach 3 million per year in the 5 coming years.
12. Access to Infrastructures:
Distance to project location | Infrastructure required | tem |
At the site | Water | 1 |
At the site | Electricity | 2 |
None | Gas | 3 |
At the site | Telecommunication | 4 |
At the site | The main road | 5 |
4km | Airport | 6 |
10km | Harbor | 7 |
380km | Railway station | 8 |
B- Financial structure:
13. Cost and benefits
USD $ 23.2 million | Capital expenditure |
USD $ 15.6 million | Operating Revenue |
USD $ 4.5 million | Operating cost |
14- Financial index
USD $ 11.1 million | Net benefit |
1.8 | Benefit–cost ratio (B/C() |
2.8 Years | Payback Period |
15-Economic index
USD $ 29.6 million | Net present value (NPV) |
39 % | Internal rate of return (IRR) |
15 % | Break-even point |
16. Methods of participation:
For this project, investor may proceed with individual investment by purchasing properties and payment of costs for obtaining necessary permits or undergo partnership with Kish Free Zone
Organization for carrying out project through various partnership models. In case of intending to have partnership, costs of property and plan permits will be considered as contribution of the organization
C- Incentives, features and advantages of the project:
17. Incentives:
• Simplified formalities for re-export and goods transit
• Tax exemption and the benefits of accessing to foreign
• 20year tax exemption for any type of financial business
• Preferential rates of land to build hotels and recreational tourism places.
• Customs duties exemption to imports raw materials and industrial machinery of the production units
• No restrictions on entry and existence of the exchange currency on any amount and the possibility
to transfer money to foreign companies.
18. Support and legal advantages:
• Foreign nationals’ entrance with no visa
• Legally protecting and ensuring foreign investors.
• Registering company with 100 percent foreign ownership
• Have the right of entry and exit the capital and the profits
19. Special and unique benefits of the region:
• Having access to the international free waterways
• Having an energy source (gas) independent of the mainland
• The ability to transit goods to neighboring CIS countries and Iran
• High level of security and social peace and low levels of social disorder
• A harbor with the ability of berthing vessels with 12,000 tones capacity.
• Exporting products to foreign countries without paying customs and harbor duties
• International Securities Exchange activity and oil and petrochemical products stock
• Having good optical fiber network and an independent private mobile network privileges
• Having an independent airline and shipping lines with the possibility of transporting vehicles