By Susie Ellis, SpaFinder Insider. While our SpaFinder 2010 Top Ten Spa Trends List has been published and can be accessed in our newsroom, I haven’t yet had a chance to share some of the “behind-the-scenes” information and photos. So here we go. Trend #1 The New “P” Word Goodbye, pampering. Hello, prevention. Well, not
When my assistant, Dulcy, and I went to Istanbul several months ago to check out places we might want to include for delegates who will be attending the Global Spa Summit, we decided to try out one of their famous and authentic hamams (hammams in Arabic). Dulcy wrote a great blog about it that was
Francis X. Acunzo from Acara offered up his aesthetic medical predictions for 2010 . I think they are interesting – especially for aesthetic medical spas or medi spas. Here are the predictions with my comments following each. 1. Dysport will become a strong competitor to Botox. Susie: In time it might, however doctors doing
Susie Ellis, SpaFinder Insider. 2000 – 2010 While SpaFinder has been predicting spa trends yearly for most of the last decade, this is the first time I’ve had the opportunity to sum up the top 10 spa trends that developed over the past 10 years. And what a decade it was! From organic to
Susie Ellis, SpaFinder Insider. Chad Smith who owns a fitness club in Maryland Home Team Fitness, writes a popular column called the Fitness Answer Man. Recently he shared his Top Four fitness trend predictions for 2010. Here they are along with my opinion which boils down to: Agree, agree, disagree, and agree. Fitness Trend #1:
by Susie Ellis, SpaFinder Insider My first article addressing spas and medical tourism has been published. A few months ago I was asked to write an article for Medical Tourism Magazine on this topic. I was more than happy to do so. Soon after beginning the article however, I realized that I wasn't
I just love it when a spa trend we predict (especially one that some people think is “out of the blue”) begins getting buzz. So how fitting that a week ago we predicted the 2010 spa trend “Year of the Hammam” and in today’s USA Today they talk about the new Silversea Cruise ship with
Please Join Us! SpaFinder 2010 Spa Trend Forecast Online Presentation with UCI by Susie Ellis, SpaFinder Insider For you spa trend trackers… please mark Monday, December 7th (10:00 a.m. PST) on your calendar. This year I will be presenting and analyzing our 2010 SpaFinder Global Spa Trends Forecast through an online webinar (open to anyone)
A Day of Good News for Spasby Susie Ellis, SpaFinder Insider Peter (my husband and CEO of our company for those who are new to the blog) was in Florida this weekend and stopped by to say hi and congratulations to Paul Lehr, President of Pritikin Longevity Center and Spa. We had recently heard the
I have become a spa candle snob…and to a large degree I have only myself to blame. I noticed it last week as I was touring the new Amrita Spa at the Swiss Hotel in Istanbul. Their spa is quite large and has a lovely ambiance. I was especially impressed with the long corridors, which
Medical Tourism Congress in LA was Intriguing by Susie Ellis, SpaFinder Insider Am sharing notes I took on Day One of the Medical Tourism & Global Health Congress in Los Angeles earlier this week. (The notes in red are some of my personal thoughts.) Am here at the Hyatt Century City at the World Medical
Some people fall asleep easily and then wake up at 3 in the morning while others take many hours to fall asleep. These are the two common patterns. Anything less than 7 hours of sleep is considered not enough. Even those of us who are good sleepers may not be getting enough rest.