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The complex includes a new 100-bed spa hotel and a public bathing facility which attracts one million visitors a year
The development has opened in phases over the past three years, with the final part – a 100-bed hotel and huge 4,000sq m thermal area devoted to health and wellbeing – launching in August. An upgrade of a separate public bathing facility, which attracts up to a million people a year, was completed in 2016.
The project has been backed by Sothermy, a subsidiary of the Moroccan financial institution CDG, which already manages a number of thermal facilities in the area. While Sothermy runs Moulay Yacoub’s public baths, it turned to Vichy Spa International, from the famous French spa town of Vichy, to consult on the new hotel and spa and to operate it. Sothermy believes the partnership with Vichy Spa will boost its international profile.
At the heart of Vichy Thermalia Spa Hôtel is a large pool with thermal waters sourced from 1,500m underground. The waters are said to be beneficial for rheumatology and joint pain, particularly osteoarthritis and chronic tendonitis.
There are more than 50 treatment rooms in the new spa, including 33 cabins with baths, jet showers, Vichy showers, underwater showers and special thoracic and lumbar therapy areas. A further 18 cabins include areas for traditional massages, as well as Gharieni MLX Quartz beds, Iyashi Domes and Vichy shower rooms. There’s also a hammam and facials by Laboratoiries Vichy as well as treatments from Moroccan skincare brand marocMaroc.
The MAD880 (US$93, €81, £72) Trilogie Soins Signature Experience includes repetition of a hydromassage bath, hot vegan-mineral clay wrap with Vichy minerals and Vichy shower massage with two or four hands.
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The complex includes a new 100-bed spa hotel and a public bathing facility which attracts one million visitors a year
The development has opened in phases over the past three years, with the final part – a 100-bed hotel and huge 4,000sq m thermal area devoted to health and wellbeing – launching in August. An upgrade of a separate public bathing facility, which attracts up to a million people a year, was completed in 2016.
The project has been backed by Sothermy, a subsidiary of the Moroccan financial institution CDG, which already manages a number of thermal facilities in the area. While Sothermy runs Moulay Yacoub’s public baths, it turned to Vichy Spa International, from the famous French spa town of Vichy, to consult on the new hotel and spa and to operate it. Sothermy believes the partnership with Vichy Spa will boost its international profile.
At the heart of Vichy Thermalia Spa Hôtel is a large pool with thermal waters sourced from 1,500m underground. The waters are said to be beneficial for rheumatology and joint pain, particularly osteoarthritis and chronic tendonitis.
There are more than 50 treatment rooms in the new spa, including 33 cabins with baths, jet showers, Vichy showers, underwater showers and special thoracic and lumbar therapy areas. A further 18 cabins include areas for traditional massages, as well as Gharieni MLX Quartz beds, Iyashi Domes and Vichy shower rooms. There’s also a hammam and facials by Laboratoiries Vichy as well as treatments from Moroccan skincare brand marocMaroc.
The MAD880 (US$93, €81, £72) Trilogie Soins Signature Experience includes repetition of a hydromassage bath, hot vegan-mineral clay wrap with Vichy minerals and Vichy shower massage with two or four hands.
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initiative that will provide insights into the retreat sector from both consumer and industry
perspectives.
The Wellness Tourism Association (WTA) has published a non-regulatory global industry
framework designed to ensure the retreat market offers responsible experiences.
A new survey of UK and international spa practitioners shows that stress, burnout and
wellbeing concerns have caused one in three respondents to consider leaving the industry.
The UK's four Chief Medical Officers have published a refreshed edition of Physical activity
guidelines: UK Chief Medical Officers' report, updating the evidence that underpins the nation's
physical activity recommendations and placing greater emphasis on strength, balance, reducing
sedentary behaviour and, for the first time, supporting people taking weight loss medications.
Anna Bjurstam has left her role as Wellness Pioneer at Six Senses Hotels and Resorts and
launched a new wellness, longevity and “consciousness consultancy” called Wahayla.
Fairmont Cheshire, The Mere, has opened today (10 July) in the Northwest of England
with a
1,715sq m Fairmont Spa that has been designed using a ‘Wellness without Walls’
concept.
Wellness hotels generating less than US$1 million (€932,700, £785,200) – or 10 per cent of
total revenue from wellness and leisure – recorded the strongest RevPAR and TRevPAR growth
in 2025 across categories when compared with 2024, according to the latest Wellness Real
Estate Report by RLA Global, produced in partnership with P and L benchmarking firm HotStats.
Lefay Resorts, the portfolio of two luxury wellness properties in Italy, has added emotional
dance classes and group cold plunge sessions in response to market demand for social
connection.
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