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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Interview: Alexandre Cantin
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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
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People taking GLP-1 weight loss medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound
may be losing weight, but they’re also becoming less physically active, according to new
research presented at the ENDO 2026 annual meeting of the Endocrine Society
Abu Dhabi-based investment firm Mubadala Capital has made a binding, fully financed
€1 billion
offer to acquire Pierre and Vacances SA, the European holiday resort operator behind the
continental European Center Parcs business.
Global retreat trade show, Synergy The Retreat Show, has launched a resource called The
Source, which hosts an open-access online Transformation Series programme.
The Standards Authority for Touch in Cancer Care (SATCC) charity has announced its first five-
day Living with Cancer and Beyond retreat, which will be held at Carden Park Hotel and Spa in
Cheshire, UK, between 1 and 5 September.
Patmos Aktis, a Luxury Collection Resort and Spa, has opened in Greece, with a renovated and
rebranded wellness offering called Ansana Wellness and Spa.
The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, an Autograph Collection property in Hawaii, US, has opened its
22,000 sq ft indoor-outdoor Spa at Mauna Kea as the final step in the property’s overall
renovation, which has cost more than US$180 million (€166 million, £140 mill
The UK spa review and discovery platform for consumers, the Good Spa Guide, has announced
it will host the Good Spa Guide Awards 2026 during an event on 16 November at Sopwell House
Hotel in St Albans, UK.
Eighty-four per cent of consumers now say wellness is a top priority in their lives, with this
percentage increasing year on year, according to a preview presentation of McKinsey’s Future of
Wellness 2026 research report.
Mass protests have been taking place since Monday 1 June in Albania over the development of
a luxury resort by Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner.
Global Wellness Day (GWD) marked its 15th anniversary on Saturday 13 June 2026, with the
theme: #JoyMagenta – a celebration of the healing qualities of simple gestures and activities
that spark joy.
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