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Spa equipment innovator, Gharieni, is partnering with leading
spas around the world to showcase its products to clients in
real world settings, as CEO, Sammy Gharieni, explains
What’s the vision and inspiration behind Gharieni Flagship Spas? We’ve been collaborating with premium partners to take exceptional spas to the next level.
The idea behind our flagship spas is to create wellness facilities – fully equipped by Gharieni – where our clients can experience our wellness concepts in a real spa environment.
Under this arrangement, the spas benefit from constant training on new products, free maintenance and service and special product upgrades. That creates a win-win situation for all.
Why should spa buyers visit a Gharieni Flagship Spa? It’s difficult to fully appreciate the potential of our equipment on a trade show booth or even in one of our showrooms around the world.
We can demonstrate the functionality of our treatment beds, but it’s more challenging to present the features which create the emotional journey, such as scent diffusers, integrated chromotherapy or brainwave entrainment tools like the Spa.Wave System.
Testing a spa table for a couple of minutes in a showroom is worlds away from the experience of getting a 60-minute massage at a Gharieni Flagship Spa, but that’s exactly what you need to do if you really want to appreciate the quality of our products.
What innovations are you showcasing? All flagship spas need to offer a minimum of 10 treatment rooms to provide enough space to display a wide variety of Gharieni products.
All partner spas have a different focus when it comes to their spa menu, but besides our treatment tables, they use our high-end spa concepts like the Quartz concept, the Spa.Wave System, MLX Dome, the WellMassage 4D treatment concept or highlights from our HydroSpa Collection, like the Libra Edge horizontal shower experience.
Do these relationships inspire you to develop new concepts? We’re in permanent dialogue with our flagship spas, which enables us to react quickly to suggest upgrades. Each improvement we make goes directly into our development pipeline to improve our products.
Through the training we do, we also have lively exchanges with local therapists, who come up with new ideas and suggestions that help us create new wellness concepts or treatments.
We don’t want to reveal too much yet, because 2020 is already just around the corner, but there are still a few surprises to come.
Gharieni Flagship Spas
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View contents of Spa Business 2019 issue 4
Editor's letter: Democratic wellness
To truly flourish, the spa industry needs to step outside its comfort zone and reach out to different markets with new and exciting business models, says Katie Barnes
Spa Programmes: On the menu
Boundary-pushing wellness in Iceland, self-care focus at Devarana and Civana’s equine retreat all feature in our spa menu round-up
Interview: Alexandre Cantin
Canada’s Groupe Nordik wants to open 10 nature spas, focusing on bathing and thermotherapy, by 2027. Katie Barnes talks to its VP of growth and strategy
Promotional feature: Starpool - Star quality
Wellness expert, Starpool, is known for offering complete wellness solutions with Italian design flair, enabling operators to create world class treatments and experiences
Training: Covering all bases
Resense joins forces with Lobster Ink to create an online training program for multiple spa roles
Promotional feature: Gharieni
Spa equipment innovator, Gharieni, is partnering with leading spas around the world to showcase its products to clients in real world settings, as CEO, Sammy Gharieni, explains
Research: Positive picture
ISPA’s latest US spa study shows continued growth across key metrics and pinpoints CBD and gen Z as trends. Russell Donaldson reports
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Rainer Bolsinger, who heads up hotel and spa sales of icelab at Zimmer MedizinSystems, and icelab customer Chenot Group, explain how cryotherapy can be incorporated into your business
Promotional feature: Biologique Recherche - Skin deep
Biologique Recherche has spent the past 40 years developing technology and products to understand the skin on an individual level. Pierre-Louis Delapalme and Rupert Schmid tell Spa Business about the Parisian brand’s latest innovations
Research: On the move
The global physical activity market is now worth US$828bn according to a new GWI study. But what emerging trends do spas need to know about?
Promotional feature: SpaSoft - Onwards & upwards
The enhanced integration between SpaSoft and multiple PMS systems will help your team save time, remove the possibility of human error and create an elevated guest experience
Software: Monetising
How is software helping spas to navigate e-commerce and further monetise their relationship with clients
The Spa Life UK Convention returns from 21–23 June 2026 at Whittlebury Park Hotel, Spa &
Golf Resort, bringing together spa managers, directors and owners for two days of focused
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Spa equipment innovator, Gharieni, is partnering with leading
spas around the world to showcase its products to clients in
real world settings, as CEO, Sammy Gharieni, explains
What’s the vision and inspiration behind Gharieni Flagship Spas? We’ve been collaborating with premium partners to take exceptional spas to the next level.
The idea behind our flagship spas is to create wellness facilities – fully equipped by Gharieni – where our clients can experience our wellness concepts in a real spa environment.
Under this arrangement, the spas benefit from constant training on new products, free maintenance and service and special product upgrades. That creates a win-win situation for all.
Why should spa buyers visit a Gharieni Flagship Spa? It’s difficult to fully appreciate the potential of our equipment on a trade show booth or even in one of our showrooms around the world.
We can demonstrate the functionality of our treatment beds, but it’s more challenging to present the features which create the emotional journey, such as scent diffusers, integrated chromotherapy or brainwave entrainment tools like the Spa.Wave System.
Testing a spa table for a couple of minutes in a showroom is worlds away from the experience of getting a 60-minute massage at a Gharieni Flagship Spa, but that’s exactly what you need to do if you really want to appreciate the quality of our products.
What innovations are you showcasing? All flagship spas need to offer a minimum of 10 treatment rooms to provide enough space to display a wide variety of Gharieni products.
All partner spas have a different focus when it comes to their spa menu, but besides our treatment tables, they use our high-end spa concepts like the Quartz concept, the Spa.Wave System, MLX Dome, the WellMassage 4D treatment concept or highlights from our HydroSpa Collection, like the Libra Edge horizontal shower experience.
Do these relationships inspire you to develop new concepts? We’re in permanent dialogue with our flagship spas, which enables us to react quickly to suggest upgrades. Each improvement we make goes directly into our development pipeline to improve our products.
Through the training we do, we also have lively exchanges with local therapists, who come up with new ideas and suggestions that help us create new wellness concepts or treatments.
We don’t want to reveal too much yet, because 2020 is already just around the corner, but there are still a few surprises to come.
Gharieni Flagship Spas
Read more from this issue of Spa Business magazine
View contents of Spa Business 2019 issue 4
Editor's letter: Democratic wellness
To truly flourish, the spa industry needs to step outside its comfort zone and reach out to different markets with new and exciting business models, says Katie Barnes
Spa Programmes: On the menu
Boundary-pushing wellness in Iceland, self-care focus at Devarana and Civana’s equine retreat all feature in our spa menu round-up
Interview: Alexandre Cantin
Canada’s Groupe Nordik wants to open 10 nature spas, focusing on bathing and thermotherapy, by 2027. Katie Barnes talks to its VP of growth and strategy
Promotional feature: Starpool - Star quality
Wellness expert, Starpool, is known for offering complete wellness solutions with Italian design flair, enabling operators to create world class treatments and experiences
Training: Covering all bases
Resense joins forces with Lobster Ink to create an online training program for multiple spa roles
Promotional feature: Gharieni
Spa equipment innovator, Gharieni, is partnering with leading spas around the world to showcase its products to clients in real world settings, as CEO, Sammy Gharieni, explains
Research: Positive picture
ISPA’s latest US spa study shows continued growth across key metrics and pinpoints CBD and gen Z as trends. Russell Donaldson reports
Promotional feature: Zimmer MedizinSystems - Cool customer
Rainer Bolsinger, who heads up hotel and spa sales of icelab at Zimmer MedizinSystems, and icelab customer Chenot Group, explain how cryotherapy can be incorporated into your business
Promotional feature: Biologique Recherche - Skin deep
Biologique Recherche has spent the past 40 years developing technology and products to understand the skin on an individual level. Pierre-Louis Delapalme and Rupert Schmid tell Spa Business about the Parisian brand’s latest innovations
Research: On the move
The global physical activity market is now worth US$828bn according to a new GWI study. But what emerging trends do spas need to know about?
Promotional feature: SpaSoft - Onwards & upwards
The enhanced integration between SpaSoft and multiple PMS systems will help your team save time, remove the possibility of human error and create an elevated guest experience
Software: Monetising
How is software helping spas to navigate e-commerce and further monetise their relationship with clients
Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai in Hoi An, Vietnam, has put together a Global Wellness Day
(GWD) agenda with activations rooted in nature and shaped by four pillars of Joy – in
alignment with the day’s theme #JoyMagenta.
The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) will celebrate its 20th anniversary at the 2026 event in
Phuket, Thailand, later this year with the theme: The Science, Art and Soul of Wellness.
Auko, an all-inclusive development, is opening in Phong Nha in Vietnam in Q3 2026, with a
series of 30 tented eco-lodges and wellness hospitality operations by Lumina Wellbeing.
Therme Manchester’s 28-acre development, which will include interconnected glass pavilions
that measure 65,000sq m, will be the largest bathing and wellbeing attraction in the world once
complete, according to prof David Russell, CEO of Therme UK.
Naples Beach Club, a Four Seasons Resort, has opened a 2,800sq m spa called The Sanctuary,
with the design and concept inspired by the Native American people that populated Florida’s
Southwest coast – the Calusa.
Swire Hotels’ luxury hospitality brand Upper House has revealed it will roll out its two-day
House of Healing retreats at its three hotels in Hong Kong, Chengdu and Shanghai.
LVMH-owned beauty house Guerlain will launch up to five spas with partners a year as part of
its plan to expand globally, according to the brand’s international spa and wellness director,
Diane Davody.
A new global study by Kevin Kelly and Peter Yesawich, called WELLSurvey 2.0, has revealed
more than half of consumers in the UK, US and Germany would not choose numerous high-
profile wellness resort brands for a future trip.
Luxury hospitality and wellness pioneer Jeremy McCarthy has launched Leisure Alchemy, a
digital platform that will provide professionals with strategic guidance on how to build
transformational leisure experiences that drive profit.
The Spa Life UK Convention returns from 21–23 June 2026 at Whittlebury Park Hotel, Spa &
Golf Resort, bringing together spa managers, directors and owners for two days of focused
education, meaningful connection and commercial insight. [more...]
+ More featured suppliers
COMPANY PROFILES
Spa Supply Solutions Founded in 2014 by spa management expert Julie Bevilacqua, Spa Supply Solutions is a leader in spa p [more...]
