spa industry

Celebrate Oktoberfest with a trip to the spa (or with a great DIY treatment at home!). Spa-ktoberfest – all the benefits of beer without the gut or the hangover.

Summer may be ending but these new additions to the spa and wellness world are just beginning. Check out our Monthly Newsfeed!

We chatted with Ryan Crabbe, Senior Director of Global Wellness, Hilton Worldwide, to learn more about how eforea spas are going local!

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What happened this month? We cover it here!

Why are people seeing wellness with such a narrow definition? It seems obvious to me that wellness is the broader concept and spas are part of wellness; however, I am learning that not everyone sees it that way.

Sheila Cluff’s life story transcends the age gap – it uses a universal language of dreams, sacrifice, and family – one we all understand, can appreciate, and relate to.

Notes from Susie Ellis’s SXSW panel discussion – “Health Content Should be Emotional”.

Let me begin with a scenario, circa 2020 … Lisa, aged 36, has been working 12-plus hour days for months – trapped in a terrible cycle of bad food, bad sleep, little exercise and incredible stress.

Just finished our New York media event and a well-attended webinar announcing the new Top 10 SpaFinder Wellness Trends Forecast for 2013.

These resort spas & treatments are out of this world.

Who doesn’t love a good story? Rachel Shechtman, founder of the NYC’s STORY, seeks to share a new “tale” each month by switching up the concept in her 2,000-square-foot retail shop. Find out why we’re just loving this month’s theme!

Peter Rummell, former head of Disney Imagineering, suggested that we, as an industry, get rid of the word “spa.” He said “it conjures up affluent, white, women and is hurting our reputation.” The author thinks this is a terrible idea.

Here is the future. Medical = drugs/surgery = expensive. Wellness = prevention = less expensive. While a visit to spa and wellness destinations may not magically turn someone from unhealthy to healthy, they can help people change directions.

One sign that this emphasis on senses is a trend (not that I think this is a good sign) is how often spas and brands are using the term “sense” in their name.

“Hot” is the spa world’s age-old weapon to make people relax, sweat, detoxify and draw blood to the surface. But now spas are bravely stepping out into the cold.

2012 Spa and Wellness Trends preview.

Take a look at the bold design elements at the Atomic Spa Suisse, or “bubble spa,” in the Boscolo Milano hotel (Italy), where wild, LED-illuminated mirror bubbles rise to the top of the interiors of the treatment rooms, sauna and baths, like a frothing glass of champagne.

Another new study[10] finds that of the 41 million Americans that use mind-body therapies like yoga or tai chi, 6.4 million are now doing them because they were “prescribed” by their medical provider.