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What have been the biggest industry disruptors? Global warming and COVID-19. Both have led to a shift towards health, wellness, transformative and regenerative tourism which impact every aspect of spa development and operations.
What key innovations can you identify? The most significant change has been the integration of technology. From wearable tech and biohacking as a shortcut to wellness to the explosion of meditation, breathwork and yoga apps and online wellbeing tutorials and courses.
The next step is to incorporate virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence into spa offerings to enhance the customer experience.
What do you wish had been invented? Advanced modalities that can enhance the quality of life in old age, perhaps driven by our understanding of epigenetics and telomeres and using vibrational medicine and advanced frequency-sound capsules that bring about cellular renovation and age reversal.
What’s holding spas back? While high-tech services will shape our future, the success of spas will only be guaranteed if we maintain our caring human approach. A therapist’s biggest asset is their healing hands, ability to serve from the heart, empathy, intention and whole-person approach, ensuring that each client’s needs and concerns are understood and addressed.
The industry runs the risk of packaging practices into commercial products, driven by greed and profit, rather than focusing on the actual value of wellbeing so treatments lose their true significance and profound importance.
What will the industry look like in 2050? I hope it will focus on human values and empowerment and that wellness is readily available to children, health providers, blue-collar workers and corporate employees – people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.
Birthday message to Spa Business
"Spa Business is the most important wellness publication on the planet! It was the first magazine to take an interest in the spa industry in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean, it gave us a voice and placed us on the world map. It informs and inspires global professionals with its visionary articles"
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Editor's letter: Reflection point
As Spa Business celebrates its 20th birthday, Katie Barnes pauses for thought and rejoices in the industry’s evolution
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Promotion: Lemi: Built to last
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cutting-edge treatment room solutions that excel
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Promotion: Comfort Zone: A brighter future
Consumers are increasingly interested in reducing dark spots and hyperpigmentation and a new line from Comfort Zone has been launched to address this emerging need
Promotion: Art of Cryo: Life changing experience
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the Art of Cryo Tech-Spa Module is a chance to re-set and rejuvenate together
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What have been the biggest industry disruptors? Global warming and COVID-19. Both have led to a shift towards health, wellness, transformative and regenerative tourism which impact every aspect of spa development and operations.
What key innovations can you identify? The most significant change has been the integration of technology. From wearable tech and biohacking as a shortcut to wellness to the explosion of meditation, breathwork and yoga apps and online wellbeing tutorials and courses.
The next step is to incorporate virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence into spa offerings to enhance the customer experience.
What do you wish had been invented? Advanced modalities that can enhance the quality of life in old age, perhaps driven by our understanding of epigenetics and telomeres and using vibrational medicine and advanced frequency-sound capsules that bring about cellular renovation and age reversal.
What’s holding spas back? While high-tech services will shape our future, the success of spas will only be guaranteed if we maintain our caring human approach. A therapist’s biggest asset is their healing hands, ability to serve from the heart, empathy, intention and whole-person approach, ensuring that each client’s needs and concerns are understood and addressed.
The industry runs the risk of packaging practices into commercial products, driven by greed and profit, rather than focusing on the actual value of wellbeing so treatments lose their true significance and profound importance.
What will the industry look like in 2050? I hope it will focus on human values and empowerment and that wellness is readily available to children, health providers, blue-collar workers and corporate employees – people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.
Birthday message to Spa Business
"Spa Business is the most important wellness publication on the planet! It was the first magazine to take an interest in the spa industry in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean, it gave us a voice and placed us on the world map. It informs and inspires global professionals with its visionary articles"
More from spa industry leaders...
In celebration of Spa Business’ 20th anniversary, industry leaders take a look at how far the sector has come since the magazine’s inception in 2003, share personal career highlights and reveal their plans and ideas for the future.
Read more from this issue of Spa Business magazine
View contents of Spa Business 2023 issue 3
Editor's letter: Reflection point
As Spa Business celebrates its 20th birthday, Katie Barnes pauses for thought and rejoices in the industry’s evolution
Spa People: 20th anniversary issue: Anna Bjurstam
The strategic senior advisor at Six Senses and Raison d'Etre on being initiated as a shaman, why psychedelics are here to stay and her bigger fear for the global spa industry
Promotion: Klafs: Relax into wellbeing
Klafs and Studio F. A. Porsche have combined their design and wellness expertise to create an oasis for total-body relaxation
News report: Eastern promise
Japan’s spa industry is valued at US$4.2 billion and is part of the world's third highest-performing wellness economy
Jeremy McCarthy: Theory of evolution
From spa to wellness and now leisure – Spa Business’ contributing editor looks at where hospitality experiences are heading
Promotion: Lemi: Built to last
Lemi is committed to leading with innovation to create
cutting-edge treatment room solutions that excel
in terms of performance and eco-credentials
Promotion: G.M. COLLIN: Collagen pioneers
GM Collin’s expertise in collagen research and product formulation has resulted in the creation of a new serum that combats age-related skin degeneration
Promotion: Comfort Zone: A brighter future
Consumers are increasingly interested in reducing dark spots and hyperpigmentation and a new line from Comfort Zone has been launched to address this emerging need
Promotion: Art of Cryo: Life changing experience
Vikki and Robbie are often exhausted after work. A visit to the spa to experience
the Art of Cryo Tech-Spa Module is a chance to re-set and rejuvenate together
TLee Spas and Wellness has revealed the design concept for a high-tech spa with body
mapping scanners to improve public health, for AI company Midjourney.
Ameyalli, the 78-acre wellbeing resort and residential community in Midway in Utah, US, has
broken ground on phase two of the hot spring development – the Ameyalli Resort and Spa –
which is due to open in 2028.
Gran Hotel Taoro in northern Tenerife, Spain, has completed the final phase of its three-year
renovation with the debut of its Sandára Wellness Centre.
Hand and Stone Massage and Facial Spa, the spa business with more than 650 locations across
the US and Canada, has appointed franchise expert Carrie Walsh as CEO as the company plans
to expand.
Synergy – The Retreat Show, the global trade show for retreats, has launched a global research
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.
In the fast-paced world of fitness and wellness, where high-intensity workouts push us to
our limits and the sweat pours, the importance of efficient recovery cannot be overstated. [more...]
