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Following a public consultation, Therme Manchester, the UK’s first city-based wellbeing resort, has submitted a refined new design for approval to Trafford Council. The concept for the project has transitioned, from primarily a single building with zones and an undulating roofline, to a flowing pavilion-style
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Spa consultant Diana Mestre and design firm Saballos Architects have co-created a new wellness temple concept for five-star boutique resort Ka'ana in San Ignacio, Belize. Mestre – of Mestre & Mestre Spa & Wellness Consultants – says the spa will open at the end of 2024 and showcase ancient Mayan traditions in
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Taichi Kuma, son of the celebrated Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, has designed a striking new sauna for the Sana Mane glamping destination in southern Japan. Nestled between a forest and a beach, the 150-layer wooden sauna is built from 5,000 pieces of stacked plywood and curves upwards into a spiral shape
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The Good Spa Guide has unveiled the results of its 14th annual awards this evening (3 July) at Spa Life UK’s annual two-day conference in the Cotswolds, UK. The awards celebrate the very best in spa excellence across the UK and how they play an increasingly vital role in supporting our health and wellbeing.
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Hotel owner, operator and investor Minor Hotels has announced plans to unveil a second Anantara property in Brazil. Slated to launch in 2026, the new-build Anantara Preá Ceará Resort will be located in the state of Ceará on the country’s northeast coast. Soon to start development on Preá Beach in the
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Six Senses is set to open a new tropical island retreat on a stretch of secret beachfront in Belize by mid-2025. Six Senses Belize will be home to 45 resort villas and 24 overwater residences set across two areas – Secret Beach and a 10-acre private island about two miles away. According to Six Senses, a
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Five-star luxury spa retreat Luton Hoo Hotel, Golf & Spa is due to be redeveloped under the premium Fairmont Hotels & Resorts brand following a recent deal between Accor and Arora Group. Located in the leafy Hertfordshire countryside, Luton Hoo was acquired by Arora – one of the UK’s leading hotel
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The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) has announced that Jeremy Jauncey, founder and CEO of Beautiful Destinations, will keynote its 17th-annual event taking place in Doha, Qatar, from 6-9 November. Jauncey, a British-born serial entrepreneur, travel writer and social media influencer with millions of followers on
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Award-winning US wellness community Serenbe in Atlanta, Georgia, has expanded its spa following a jump in business over the past two years. Thanks to the update, The Spa at Serenbe has grown from eight treatment rooms to 12 and expanded its footprint by nearly 60 per cent (from 1,900sq ft to 3,198 sq ft).
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New Zealand’s newest wellness destination Wai Ariki Hot Springs and Spa has opened on the shores of Lake Rotorua following a grand opening ceremony attended by New Zealand prime minister Chris Hipkins. Combining the Rotorua region’s healing geothermal waters with the centuries-old legacy of Ngāti Whakaue
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Welsh music star, TV personality and activist Charlotte Church has opened a new wellness retreat in the Elan Valley in Powys, Wales. Called The Dreaming, the new destination is designed to offer an escape from the complexity of modern life; connecting people back to the land, to themselves and to their journey.
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Product house Elemis has announced the death of Jan Kuśmirek. He was 76. Working alongside investor, Linda Steiner, Kuśmirek was the founding formulator and creative mind behind the inception of the Steiner Group's Elemis brand in 1990. He continued to work alongside co-founders Sean Harrington, Noella Gabriel
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Ancestral Handmade Hotels is a brand-new regenerative wellness hotel concept seeking to revive and celebrate ancestral wisdom and tribal traditions at every step – from building methods to wellness programming. The new hotel group is the brainchild of Ana Ramirez, a passionate industry architect who is deeply
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Clinique La Prairie (CLP) has announced the launch of its Holistic Health supplement range in the legendary London department store Harrods. To celebrate the launch, visitors to Harrods will be invited to experience a series of exclusive experiences designed by CLP for Harrods Wellness Clinic, including master
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Luxury hospitality company Jumeirah Group has appointed industry veteran Niamh O’Connell as its first vice president of wellbeing, group and corporate. Jumeirah says the move is part of the group’s renewed focus to elevate the wellness offering across its 6,500 key portfolio of 26 luxury properties across the
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Xponential Fitness is expanding the selection of digital workouts it provides to Lululemon Studio, increasing the number of branded workouts on the retailer's digital fitness platform. Going forward, Xponential will provide workouts from its Pure Barre, Rumble, AKT, and YogaSix brands. The Xponential workouts
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More than 100 spa and wellness professionals from across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) have assembled in Croatia to attend W3Spa EMEA, kicking off today at the five-star Le Méridien Lav, Split. Now in its second year, the three-day industry event is organised by spa, fitness and hospitality buyer
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Cancer patients who practise YOCAS yoga can benefit from reduced levels of inflammation – helping their road to recovery and even preventing cancer from returning. The finding comes from research led by the University of Rochester Medical Centre in the US, published at the recent annual meeting of the American
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Spas operated by Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group (MOHG) will harness the healing power of music following the upcoming launch of a new Wellness Music Programme. Debuting across the group on Global Wellness Day (10 June 2023), the new music collection is designed to enhance MOHG’s signature spa treatments based
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Sonu Shivdasani, co-founder of barefoot luxury hotel and wellness brand Soneva, has confirmed there will be a new Soneva opening by the end of 2023. Speaking at a webinar with WGSN, Shivdasani revealed: “The new Maldives location will be remote, very private, small and offer a personalised experience.
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Sustainability-focused trade association GSN Planet has launched a new training programme to educate spa professionals about environmentally conscious spa management. Now accessible on the GSN Planet website, the Sustainable Spa Practitioner course provides wellness practitioners with the knowledge and tools to
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Hilton Hotels & Resorts will expand its luxury Conrad Hotels & Resorts brand with a new resort and luxury spa in Orlando, Florida, by the end of the year. Named Conrad Orlando, the 433-key property will be home to a two-floor, 10,000sq ft spa inspired by Florida’s natural freshwater springs, as well as a 12,000sq
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Cape of Senses, Lake Garda’s upcoming five-star, adult-only spa hideaway, is due to open its doors in South Tyrol on 8 July 2023. Situated 200 metres above Lake Garda on the east side, the Torri del Benaco retreat will feature 55 suites and a 2,000sq m Senses Spa – all designed by architects and interior
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Lifestyle brand Equinox has told HCM it plans to fight a ruling by the US courts that it must pay pay US$11.25m to a former employee who claimed she was discriminated against due to race, saying it "vehemently disagrees with the jury’s finding". Röbynn Europe, a black female personal trainer, started work
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Austria’s five-star alpine wellness retreat Hotel Krallerhof has been updated with a new nature-centric glass-fronted spa, Atmosphere by Krallerhof. Embedded in the slopes of the Asitz mountain, the five-star Salzburger hotel’s new adults-only wellness facility opened following a two-year project helmed by
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