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- Look better naked—that’s the philosophy of gym-industry innovator David Barton, who debuts his first spa at Miami’s Gansevoort Hotel.
- Following a $10 million renovation, the Venus spa at Anguilla’s CusinArt Resort reopened with Greek thalassotherapy treatments.
- Babor and Sodashi treatments are now a benefit for Emirates Airlines’s first- and business-class passengers at Dubai Airport’s new Timeless Spa.
- Sothys introduces C Renewal, a range of three anti-aging products meant to work with the body’s nighttime cell-renewal process.
- Just opened: The new Anantara Spa at Desert Islands Resort, a new nature-based destination offshore Abu Dhabi’s Al Gharbia.
- Of the 14 treatment rooms at the Mandara Spa at Club Med Bali in Nusa Dua, four are private spa villas.
- Attention shoppers: The first June Jacobs-branded spa just opened at the Hilton Hotel, across from New Jersey’s Short Hills Mall.
- Four Seasons Hualalai’s spa just reopened with a new gym, an apothecary, and its own organic beauty line.
- Japan gets a taste of Ayurveda, with the first-ever Sundari Chakra Spa in Osaka.
- London’s popular Organic Pharmacy launches its first U.S. apothecary and holistic day spa in Los Angeles.
- Designer Sylvia Sepielli created the showpiece spa at the new InterContinental Montelucia Resort & Spa in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
- Moscow’s all-suite MaMaison Pokrovka Suite Hotel just landed an Algotherm Spa offering the brand’s French thalassotherapy treatments.
- New York City’s Peninsula Hotel vies for luxe-spa-leader with its new ESPA, and revamped pool, gym, and yoga atrium.
- Joseph DeNucci, a founding father of Miraval in Arizona, unveils the Borrego Ranch Resort & Spa in Palm Springs.
- The new Wai Ora Spa Resort in Rotorua, New Zealand introduces a “cultural spa” with Maori therapies.
- Eleven, probably Palm Beach’s most decadent day spa, debuts a second over-the-top location in Las Vegas.
- The luxurious new Resort at Pelican Hill, on California’s Newport Coast, strikes a naturalist note with its botanical spa.
- Highlights of One&Only Palmilla’s $30 million revamp: A four-bedroom spa villa and Mexico’s first Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurant.
- Kate Somerville and Babor facials exemplify the anti-aging approach at the new Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach Spa.
- Arriving guests can arrange to parasail into the new Six Senses Hideaway Zighy Bay, on Oman’s Musandam Peninsula.
- Facialist Tracie Martyn partners with the new 30-room Lapis Spa at the $1 billion Fountainbleau Miami Beach.
- Part of a $27 million renovation to Scotland’s Norton House hotel in Edinburgh went to an ESPA with seven treatment rooms.
- Mondrian Miami Beach’s Agua Spa opens with treatments by Själ Skincare and nails by Butter London.
- The Setai San Diego launches with a Silk Road-inspired spa and an organic bar and dining menu.
- The renovated Plaza Hotel in New York just unveiled a Caudalie Vinotherapie Spa and Wine Lounge, based on the luxe Bordeaux flagship.
- 90210 sees two new spas open this fall with the long-awaited Montage Beverly Hills and the Starwood Luxury Collection’s SLS hotel.
- Banyan Tree handpicks a team of “elite therapists” for customized Master Therapist Experiences at the Banyan Tree spas in Phuket and Bangkok.
- Jordan’s new 100,000-square-foot Anantara Spa at Kempinski Hotel Ishtar becomes the Middle East’s largest.
- Six Senses takes destination spas “into the 21st century” with its new Seventh Sense spa in Phuket, featuring four Asian-based spa concepts.
- Dior debuted its first spa at Paris’s Plaza Athénée in September.
- Paris’s Guerlain Spa now has chic spa siblings at the Regent Bal Harbour and the Waldorf=Astoria in New York.
- Sixteen sustainable guest rooms and a new chef put Miraval in Arizona back on the must-visit list.
- Jurlique’s new Biodynamic Beauty products and facial treatments reference the Australian company’s own farming methods.
- Facialist-turned-product-creator Ole Henriksen unveiled his first U.K. outpost with the demure Spa at Bluebird in London this summer.
- Toronto’s new Hazelton Hotel and Spa brings much needed spa luxe to the Canadian city.
- At the new Park Hyatt Istanbul-Maçka Palas and Spa, 25 guest rooms have their own hammam.
- After a $400 million renovation, Switzerland’s Dolder Grand in Zurich just reopened with a modern 40,000-square-foot Sylvia Sepielli Spa.
- Australia’s luxury quotient nearly quadrupled with Queensland’s new villas-only Qualia spa and the Southern Ocean Spa, set on Kangaroo Island.
- This summer the Four Seasons debuted three new resort spas in Istanbul, Florence, and Bora Bora.
